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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
investment vehicles used by angel investors to find and fund entrepreneurs: groups of angels who evaluate deals together, organizations that match entrepreneurs with interested angels, and individual angels who seek out deals through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
between generating wealth for the firm’s investment professionals via the fee stream, which is strictly a function of how many dollars you manage, and the investors in the firm — the so-called limited partners, who make money only when... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
million tax advantage. If the goal of a lower rate for capital gains was to compensate for inflation, wouldn’t it be easier simply to index the gain for inflation? LaMagna How about the argument that my type of income is better for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
providing new opportunities for Japanese investors and wider access to equity capital for emerging Japanese companies. In short, Saeki is challenging the old-boy network and forcing Japan’s button-down business culture to change. “My real... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
indefensible” and “tawdry.” Not so, contend the big-league investment firms. Their lobbying groups (https://www.investmentcouncil.org/) argue that it is fair to treat the capital gains investors earn the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
companies taking on these challenges. It’s been a steep ascent for ESG in recent years, from a fringy outlier straight to the mainstage, as investments increased tenfold from 2018 to 2020. And there’s no sign of that pace slowing. Some... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Alzheimer’s research. At McCance’s urging, they based the organization on venture capital principles: locate visionaries and invest in them; run a lean, frugal institution; and take the risk on bold ideas... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started. The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary investment banker from New York,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
those efforts both now and for the future.” Over the years, Rock, considered a founding father of the venture capital industry, helped form numerous start–ups that went on to become 20th–century success stories, including Intel, Teledyne,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
five-year stint in Boston as partner and senior managing director at AEW Capital Management. In 1999, Lewis moved to London to launch AEW Europe, a real estate investment business that grew to 18 billion in... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
businesses that could be created and, instead, maybe the business that I should create is an investment firm to promote founders entering the space and innovation in the sector.” She discovered that investor Alan Patricof, founder of Apax... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a principal at Troy, a venture... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Baker Scholar, James accepted a position as controller at his father's firm, by then a 75-person financial planning company that was called, as a result of a merger, Raymond James Financial (RJF). At the same time, he enrolled in law school and launched a venture View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and View Details