Expert Networks' Future – Investorside Panel

I dropped by the Investorside conference last week to hear the panel discussion on ‘The Future of Expert Networks’. Given my work in the expert network industry, I was excited to see some of my former competitors. The fastest growing sector of the $1.8b independent research industry are expert networks, which are now approximately a...

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Liveblogging The Smart Money of Crowds: Collaborative Investing Startups

I’m liveblogging notes from tonight’s MIT Enterprise Forum event on The Smart Money of Crowds: Collaborative Investing Startups. This was not hard to organize, and I’m very happy with how the event turned out. You can see the Twitter discussion via hashtag MIT0407. Panel Biographies Roger Ehrenberg, Moderator, Managing Partner of IA Capital Partners, LLC...

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Lead Generation 2.0: How Entrepreneurs are Fueling the Next Wave of Innovation in Internet Marketing

Following are my notes on last night’s MIT Enterprise Forum event: “Lead Generation 2.0: How Entrepreneurs are Fueling the Next Wave of Innovation in Internet Marketing“    Moderator: Brian Hirsch, Managing Director, Greenhill SAVP Brian Hirsch is a Managing Director of Greenhill SAVP and a Co-Chairman of the Fund`s Investment Committee.  Prior to joining SAVP...

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Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in the Capital Markets Industry

I have attached below some notes from last Monday’s Financial Markets World conference on Web 2.0 / Enterprise 2.0 in the Capital Markets Industry , at Bayard’s, New York. My own talk was on “How to Source Deals with Web 2.0 Technologies”. It was focused on how private equity funds, venture capital funds, and hedge...

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Peter Thiel, Paypal co-founder, on How New Technologies Thwart Government and Promote Freedom

I enjoyed tonight’s talk by Peter Thiel at NYC Junto, on “How New Technologies Thwart Government and Promote Freedom”. Junto is a libertarian-focused discussion group organized by Victor Niederhoffer. I’ve been following Peter’s writing for a while, since we overlap directly in our interests in investing and in online networks. Peter is President of Clarium...

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Web 3.0: Where Are We Headed?

I enjoyed speaking at the recent Web 2.0 New York conference.  I have posted an expanded version of my slide deck on “Web 3.0: Where Are We Headed?”  My thanks to Sutithi Chakraborty for her help in researching this topic....

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