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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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Why I left Wall Street to figure it out.

Austin Startup

This developed into another question: Even more, since there’s so much that goes on within the community, how can I know in one place, on my phone, what’s going on?—?in in the African communities around me? He thought his family in Maryland could use it to know what’s going within Ethiopian circles there. He loved it!

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11 Brilliant Businesswomen Who Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

YoungUpstarts

In 1775, she became the first woman to have a paper published under her name and would serve as the chief editor for the Maryland Journal in the early stages of the American Revolution. African-American teacher and businesswoman Maggie Walker was a pretty amazing woman, both in business and in the community.