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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Episode 42: Office Products and Niche Focusing with Adam Smith and Jonathan Domsky

Mike Michalowicz

Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. Jonathan leads the company’s sales and operations (his wife and cofounder, Liping, is the creative force behind Kidorable’s success). They met and married in China in 1994. Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. FICO credit scores, business cash flow and business debt are being joined by cash-flow reports, direct deposit data and, in some cases, social media reviews and metrics during the approval process.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window. This isn’t correct either.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. Pursue your passions: Start with the why.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 Channel instability. 05 percent CTR on Facebook in 2011. “If

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. I’m going to start by going back to 1994. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Take a look – and take your time.