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Asset Management Is a Peculiar Industry Ripe for Disruption

David Teten VC

Simon Lack reports in The Hedge Fund Mirage that from 1998 to 2010, hedge fund managers earned $379 billion in fees, while their investors earned only $70 billion in investment gains net of fees. We wrote the first version of this research with Brent Beardsley , formerly a Partner with Boston Consulting Group. Contributors.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

TechCrunch

Offering users customer support or consulting services are common revenue streams, according to product development consultant Victoria Melnikova, who also says devs should form partnerships and use platforms like Reddit and Hacker News to reach potential paying customers.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

The battle to win Startup Battlefield began long before TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off Tuesday. Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010.

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Podz turns podcasts into a personalized audio newsfeed

TechCrunch

.” Imbruce’s name may be familiar to longtime TechCrunch readers, as he was previously the chief executive at Qwiki, which won the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010 (Cloudflare was one of the runners up), then acquired by Yahoo a few years later.

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Would the Last Blackberry User Please Turn Out the Lights? I Already Left the Building

Both Sides of the Table

This was not the Innovator’s Dilemma at hand – adding email would not have disrupted their business. Yet their business was disrupted entirely by email because a small company called Research in Motion came out with a device that did email flawlessly – the Blackberry. And it turns out that – duh! Wha’?

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When Your Entrepreneurial Energy Runs Out, Here’s the Recipe for Optimization

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Megan, also known at The Cyclist Lawyer, formed her own law practice in 2010 at age 29. Here is a summary of the changes I recommend after much reading, hours of watching documentaries and considerable consultation with professionals! Written for EO by Megan Hottman. Megan recently shared this essay with Octane. DRINK MORE WATER.

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Why So Many Small Emerging Managers Don’t Use Placement Agents

David Teten VC

Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Thus, many LPs have outsourced their investment management processes to professional investment consultants (ICs). And even the firms that hire a placement agent almost always still have to run their own internal process. .