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Valuing Startup Employee Options

David Teten

While working on my most recent startup, Navon Partners , we were fortunate to have Raul Trevino , a star former Citi investment banker and Columbia MBA, interning with us. Like me, he had the pleasure/pain of being trained as an investment banking analyst.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2007. At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. If you’re going to leave, go do another startup? Don’t go into VC.”. Here they were in what I thought was one of the most sought after jobs and they almost all told me not to do it. I was baffled.

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The Enterprise Is Cool Again, and Box CEO Aaron Levie Is Loving It

readwrite.com

Back in 2007, that might have seemed like a crazy thing to do. Yes, suddenly the enterprise is cool again. And nobody is loving this more than Aaron Levie, the 27-year-old co-founder and CEO of Box, which sells cloud-based data storage and collaboration software to enterprises. A Smart Bet On The Enterprise.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

It was 2007. At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. If you’re going to leave, go do another startup? Don’t go into VC.”. Here they were in what I thought was one of the most sought after jobs and they almost all told me not to do it. I was baffled.

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[Review] How China’s Leaders Think

YoungUpstarts

The nation-building blueprint was ratified into the Chinese Communist Party’s Constitution in 2007. Li Yuanchao, for instance, was stated as the party secretary of Jiangsu when Liang Baohua has already succeeded him since 2007.

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Reclaiming The American Dream

YoungUpstarts

They see hedge-funders and investment bankers as having hijacked the American Dream from the middle class. The number of 50- to 64-year-olds enrolled in college jumped 17 percent from 2007 to 2009, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. They feel lost. Baby Boomers are already beginning to do this.