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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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[Review] The Good Fail

YoungUpstarts

He highlights the litany of woes including excessive demand brought about by a PR move, litigation, partner defections and component supply issues finally led to the company’s very public shutdown, destroying Latman’s – who then was known as Rick Latman – life in the process.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

startupbaltimore.org

Finding a Technical Cofounder by Mike Subelsky on September 17, 2010 Advice View Comments Over the past 18 months I’ve had the same conversation with about ten entrepreneurs looking to start a software-based business. As Dave Troy put it, it all boils down to this: “In Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Cofounders Find You!&#

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc.,

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Groom, Maryland Home Buyers in Baltimore ! #6- Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. 6- Help people align with their purpose.

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9 Unlikely Entrepreneurs Who Changed The Market

YoungUpstarts

It’s hard to believe that the genius behind the co-creation of software giant Microsoft never finished college, but it’s clear he didn’t need his diploma to do big things. This risky decision to leave school truly paid off when Gates and Allen partnered up to create Microsoft in 1975.

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Live now: The founder of greeNEWit answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!

The Next Web

As co-founder and chief communication officer of greeNEWit , Jannati is responsible for defining the high-level strategic direction of marketing and affiliate partner initiatives. Recognized as the 2012 Maryland Green Entrepreneur of the Year, Jannati is devoted to developing social programs that have an environmental focus.

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