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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

We also have a great panel coming up next Thursday night, Jan. 17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York.

Panel 1 - How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities
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Posted By David Teten	Tags: Christopher Ahlberg, Howard Lindzon, Michael Parekh, StockTwits, Wall Street No Comments »
On January 10th, 2012

How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

I hope you can join us Thursday night at a joint event of the Harvard Business School Angels of New York and the Harvard Business School Club of New York, on "How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value". I'll briefly discuss my research study on this topic, and then we'll have Read More...

Posted By David Teten	Tags: Andy Weissman, SoftBank Capital, TechStars, Union Square Ventures No Comments »
On January 10th, 2012

Corporations speak: How I think about buying your startup

I’m kicking off a new series on this blog: detailed notes on events of interest to the investing and technology community. Conrad Wadowski, Business Development at Xamtech, is initiating with his detailed notes on the inaugural panel of the new Enterprise Tech Meetup. Livestream video here.

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In startup land, consumer internet startups have gotten quite a Read More...

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On October 3rd, 2011

ER Accelerator Demo Day--10 great companies

This morning, we attended a very high quality demo day hosted by Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, where ten companies pitched their ideas. (Disclosure: John Frankel and I are mentors.) This is the first session of the ER Accelerator, and they did a highly professional job. The companies were very well-coached, hitting all the necessary points. Read More...

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On September 23rd, 2011

Disruptive Companies in Asset Management

We recently hosted an idea dinner on "Disruptive Companies in the Asset Management Industry".

The most attractive industries to disrupt are highly profitable ones, and asset management is traditionally a highly profitable industry. IMHO, the most successful disrupters in this area to date have been Vanguard (who popularized index funds) and the ETF industry. We Read More...