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Getting Involved In Investment Banking

YoungUpstarts

No doubt you have a vision in your mind regarding what investment bankers look like and what qualifications they have achieved. However, do you know what investment bankers actually do on a day-to-day basis? Very few have a complete understanding of what investment banking entails. A typical day.

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The Robots Are Coming for Investment Bankers, Not Just Truck Drivers

Hunter Walker

Fascinating New York Times article of the impact an analytics startup called Kensho is having in investment banking. Maybe in ten years investment bankers will stand alongside truck drivers in discussions about safety nets, universal basic income and skills retraining. Goldman Sachs is Kensho’s largest investor.

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The Robots Are Coming for Investment Bankers, Not Just Truck Drivers

Hunter Walker

Fascinating New York Times article of the impact an analytics startup called Kensho is having in investment banking. Maybe in ten years investment bankers will stand alongside truck drivers in discussions about safety nets, universal basic income and skills retraining. Goldman Sachs is Kensho’s largest investor.

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How to choose an investment banker…or replicate one

David Teten

Should you hire an investment banker? The good news: even if you are a small company and can’t afford a banker, you can synthetically and cheaply replicate a banker. That’s part of the value proposition of an institutional VC; I have been the (unpaid) investment banker for many of my portfolio companies. .

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

Both Sides of the Table

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? There is one source that was always problematic for me – intros from investment bankers. They are venture bankers not investment bankers. What price? With which other investors?

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5 Reasons For Making An Investment Club Your Next Side Hustle

YoungUpstarts

The stock market has historically been a long-term source of wealth creation, but due to a widening wealth gap, has become largely inaccessible to young people. The majority of entrepreneurial-minded people have forgotten about the stock market as an alternative to their next side hustle. Actually Learn How to Invest Your Money.

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5 Venture Periods Call For Unique Funding Strategies

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product. The final product works great, and all the early users love it.”