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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

Valuing Startup Employee Options

This is the third of three blog posts on financial modeling for startups. The first was on best practices in building financial models, and the second was a template financial model for a startup.

I’ve often found it helpful to have on hand a simple model showing the impact of each financing stages on all team Read More...

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On November 17th, 2011

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

Tax Credits for Startups in New York State

As our federal and state government continue to worry about job creation, they're trying their best to promote entrepreneurship. Our CFO Alex Katz just sent out a memo to our portfolio, attached below, about 2 tax credits available to companies that do business in New York State.

For background, we rarely see a CPA come to Read More...