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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Sponsor: Cooley, Co-sponsored by the HBS Angels of New York. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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10 Famous Businesspeople Who Benefited From Nepotism

YoungUpstarts

Just 5 years after graduating from Georgetown, Eric is executive vice president of real estate development and mergers and acquisitions for his father’s company, although he has started his own foundation to help fund children’s charities. Ally Hilfiger. Moises de la Renta. All without a college degree. Samuel Robson Walton.

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The Importance of Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

Scott Edward Walker

As I discuss in this video from a few years back (starting at the 0:24 mark), I first learned of the importance of due diligence as a young lawyer at a major law firm in New York City. Fast forward to today, and I am obviously not handling multi-billion dollar, cross-border mergers and acquisitions at my boutique law firm.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Despite regularly being named the “Best City to Live” and attracting 150+ new residents every day, Austin’s tech community lags its coastal peers in both investment dollars and successful exits. Just this week they announced a merger with a Greek shell company as a fast track to going public. and often in non-traditional ways.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Return Path Launches Email Intelligence

Feld Thoughts

We cut a deal in 10 minutes – I offered up a 50/50 merger and Fred suggested he wanted a little more since Return Path had raised 3x the money Veripost had. ” Twelve years later Return Path is company with over 300 people, major offices in New York, Boulder, and the Bay Area, and other offices around the world.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video – otherwide Web 2.0 I saw the product recently in New York and loved it.