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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. Founder of Duncan Capital LP , Joe Duncan is a FinTech entrepreneur, with a strong background in Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. Based on our data set, we help our entrepreneurs measure, understand, and report their performance. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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The Age of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. First of all, we all know that the age distribution in the U.S. is inching higher.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern.) Look at the history of America and what has been the role models or the examples of a way out for a lot of underrepresented entrepreneurs minorities?

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. The reality is that the highly paid investment bankers are the sales people of their organizations simply extracting commissions. It’s pretty much everyone.

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Selling – the highest paid profession

Start Up Blog

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. The truth about investment bankers. The reality is that the highly paid investment bankers are the sales people of their organizations simply extracting commissions. It’s pretty much everyone.