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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

We invite you to join HBS Angels of Greater New York for a set of presentations by 7 high-potential young healthcare companies on the evening of Wednesday, February 29, in midtown Manhattan. This evening is exclusively for members of the HBS Angels of Greater New York. To Join HBS Angels of New York: 1.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

Interestingly, the New York Times just ran an interview with James Gorman, CEO, Morgan Stanley , which showed that he shares the Bridgewater focus on management as a discipline. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios? population, will turn 62 or older by 2020 ( www.census.gov ).

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Lessons From Leaders

SVPG

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it" - I attribute this to David Pogue of the New York Times, and I love this quote because I see so many teams that fall into the trap of feature chasing and they don't understand why their product doesn't move forward. Very hard for me to pick just ten.

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Announcing our investment in Bikky, a data-first customer platform for restaurants

Version One Ventures

Years earlier, he had founded Bikky after being inspired by his mother-in-law and the New York City restaurant she’s owned and operated for over 20 years. Bikky aggregates customer data from many disparate and traditionally siloed sources: point of sale, payments, online ordering, loyalty, and reservation data.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

New York ›. View More in New York › ›. New York Events ›. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. View More in Boston ›.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

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Takeaways from our first V1 Data Team Hangout

Version One Ventures

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio ) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation.