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Navigating Risk, Learning Relentlessly: An Interview with Steve Gomberg of Mondegreen Ventures

Jason Malki

From 2006 to 2010, Steve served as Finance Director and a corporate director for Asia Biogas Company, a pioneering developer and operator of waste-to-energy power plants throughout Southeast Asia. Steve has worked with numerous companies in a state of flux — experiencing both rapid growth and serious problems.

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The Pershing Square Foundation Launches Ovarian Cancer Challenge Grant

American Entrepreneurship

Established in 2006, The Pershing Square Foundation (PSF) supports exceptional leaders and innovative organizations tackling critical social challenges through scalable, sustainable impact. By spotlighting ovarian cancer, we’re expanding the frontier of cancer research to where it’s most urgently needed.”

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Interior of the Batcave, 2006 ( Jake Dobkin / Gothamist). Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble. Trust me, we’re all hurt when bubbles burst.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Founded in December 2006 in San Francisco by Farb Nivi (ex-Princeton Review/Kaplan top instructor). Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

Both Sides of the Table

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Juniper and countless others.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. He made some mistakes on his immigration paperwork so he was forced to leave the country for 8 months. But TWTFelipe is an entrepreneur.

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