Teten family invests in infant startup, “NewBo” or “Peanut”

New York, NY — The Teten Family is proud to announce that we just finalized our investment in a seed-stage startup, temporarily operating under the name “NewBo” or “Peanut”.  We are now looking for a dot-com domain name for our corporate website.  We plan to announce the official name for the company at a brit...

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ff Venture Capital Holiday Video 2012, with in-office workout

We would like to wish you Happy Holidays from ff Venture Capital! This video gives you a sense of our “fitness office” during the holidays. If you are not familiar with photography memes like “ff-ing”, you might want to look at some related memes: planking, batmanning, and owling. There’s also a few shots of my...

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Exclusive: Announcing a Startup that Brings More Efficient Government to the US and Other Countries

I’m exceptionally excited to announce that I’m now Chairman and lead investor with some other angels in a new company, Spright Governance Inc. Spright is a spinoff of the Singaporean government, which will leverage their proven expertise and technology to run other cities, states, and nations globally. Due to the nature of our business, we...

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Free comics from the Federal Reserve: economics, banking, foreign trade, etc.

My wife and I just ordered some comic books from the Federal Reserve on topics that we think our children should learn about: – banking – monetary policy – currency – barter – checks and electronic payments – and most important to their future (sadly), inflation These comic books are useful educationally, particularly in the...

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