I enjoyed attending Tuesday’s panel, “Innovative Marketplaces Meetup: Next Gen Startup Financing Marketplaces” Speakers: David Rose, Founder and CEO, Angelsoft Jeremy Smith, Chief Strategy Officer, SecondMarket Rob Garcia, Dir. Product Strategy, Lending Club Slava Rubin, Co-Founder, IndieGoGo Moderator: Nathan Solomon, SuperFluid Co-Organizers: Innovative Marketplaces Meetup, Money Meetup, and Yale Entrepreneurs and Investors Meetup About the...
[Continue Reading]Oodle acquires Grouply
Congratulations to the team at Grouply on their sale to Oodle! I’ve been on the Advisory Board of Grouply since its very early days, and am an enthusiastic user. It very significantly increase my efficiency by allowing me to monitor more online communities than I could otherwise keep an eye on. I have to admit...
[Continue Reading]Buying private companies on marketplaces of primary and secondary interests
Congratulations to the team at AxialMarket on raising $2m from First Round Capital and Windcrest Investments. I take this as a sign that they’re starting to gain traction among corporations and private equity funds, despite the fact they’re threatening the lunch of lower-tier business brokers and others who benefit from the currently highly inefficient, fragmented...
[Continue Reading]Goodbye Expert Networks, Hello Private Equity: Coverage from Integrity Research
Integrity Research wrote a nice blog post about the new startup I’m working on: "As more research providers emerge to analyze the public markets (there are now over 3,500 research providers in our database), one gap in the market are research providers for the private markets. David Teten, founder of the expert network Evalueserve Circle...
[Continue Reading]Our new Harvard Business Review article: Time for Investors to Get Social
I’m excited to report that we’ve started to release the results from our first-ever study on best practices in private equity and venture capital deal origination. My coauthor Chris Farmer (formerly Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners) and I published a summary in the current issue of Harvard Business Review. Evalueserve, a global research firm and...
[Continue Reading]Entrepreneurial Education Programs in New York/Invitation to Founder Institute Investor Session
I’ve been very excited to see the boom in the New York startup community in the last 2 years, driven in large part by the shrinkage in the NY industries that traditionally lured some of the most entrepreneurial and aggressive personalities (finance, consulting, etc.) Michael Karnjanaprakorn posted a detailed list of resources and players in...
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