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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006. Founding Date: 2004.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Jessica Jackley Flannery at Big Vision Podcast , Oct.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. In 2006, Reddit was acquired by Condé Nast Publications, and now profits through sponsored links, advertising, and “gold accounts” that offer more perks for users.

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MySuperMarket Raises $7.4 Million, Won’t Be The New WebVan

VC Cafe

MySupermarket is currently operating in the UK only, as an ecommerce aggregator which creates channel for users to compare and buy FMCG products online from the leading supermarkets in Britian: Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury’s and Ocado, an online channel on its own right, by letting users fill a virtual trolley or compile a printable shopping list.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. They built airplanes out of palm trees thinking if they did manna would come in airplanes again.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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