Share My junior year in high school will come to an end in eight days! Here’s a real brief post announcing my summer plans: During half the month of June, I will be interning at the Founders Fund in San Francisco. If you live in Silicon Valley and want to meet up please contact me! For three [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Emery Entrepreneurship – Project 1 (Part 2)
May 12th, 2009
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Share I was pretty disappointed with the results of the first project. To read the assignment, check out the post written a couple weeks ago. A few teams dropped out and did not complete the project. One very noticeable, constant problem was that students were afraid to execute. Ideas are cheap… implementation is not! The people that execute and actually [...]
A Market For Private Companies?
May 4th, 2009
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Share A recent New York Times article titled: “With Private Trades, Venture Capital Seeks a New Way Out” stated: Founders of start-ups and the venture capitalists who finance them have two ways to get their money out of the company: sell it to another company or sell shares to the public. The market for initial public offerings [...]
More on Brad Cohen
May 3rd, 2009
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Share Last week Brad Cohen spoke to a large group of teenagers in Houston to stress the power of one. Brad is an award-winning teacher and author who has severe Tourette syndrome. During his childhood, he was accused of being a troublemaker in school and was punished by his teachers for the tics and noises [...]
