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, [...continue reading]
> EventsCorporations 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 [...continue reading]
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 [...continue reading]
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 [...continue reading]
Notes from PluggedIn Ventures Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable
Gregory Sanzone, an intern at Parse.ly, took details notes on today's Real Time Data, Content, & Analytics Roundtable, hosted by PluggedIn Ventures. Real Time Data Real time data is valuable in two ways, mainly. The first is that it crudely allows content providers to recognize spikes in [...continue reading]
