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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. And, this goes well beyond the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Balloch earned a BS degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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MBA Students: Why Take an Internship When I Can Start Up?

Campus Entrepreneurship

Thirteen percent of this year’s Harvard Business School graduates founded or worked at a start-up last summer—a 4 percent increase since 2011—while 9 percent of both the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford Graduate School of Business’s graduating classes did the same. Students] want a different skill set.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

He pushed for excellence but in the process promoted equity and balance, as he gave talented women a chance to succeed. She earned her PhD in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and soon after, pivoted her focus to business and marketing. Geoffrey was pivotal in shaping me as a professional. Who is your male ally?

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Dean Vagnozzi on Commercial Real Estate Market Trends & Advice for Newcomers

The Startup Magazine

Vagnozzi saw an ad in the newspaper for a builder who had gutted and rehabbed three row homes in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, a blue collar, middle-class neighborhood, and bought them. As a young man with the energy and time on his hands, he wanted to take his piece of real estate profits like everyone else was doing.

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Cutting Up the Founder’s Pie

www.andrew.cmu.edu

Otherwise, it will take longer to get commercial traction and youÕll have to pay for these assets, usually by hiring someone and including equity in their compensation package. Commitment and Risk. YouÕve probably heard the old saying that Òa chicken is involved with breakfast, but a pig is committed.Ó startupcto