This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. Did you not understand your customer's pain point well enough in your lean startup process?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

They're often doing a startup because that's what it seems smart people do these days--like the same way the best people piled into investment banking or consulting years ago. People who just weren't inspiring at all and couldn't get me on board for any kind of ride.

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FinSMEs

JUNE 22, 2023

Muscope Cybersecurity Srl, a Milan, Italy-based cybersecurity startup, closed a €800k in funding. a pan-European investment bank, through Cyber K1. Backers included Primo Ventures SGR S.p.A., through Primo Digital and Primo Digital Parallel Italia, joined by Klecha & Co.,

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AltAssets

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Tel Aviv-based startup investor iAngels Ventures has closed its second flagship fund on $70m, according to CTech. The post “The time to invest in Israeli tech is now”, iAngels Ventures says amid closing sophomore fund first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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SuperAngel.Fund

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These milestones impact all shareholders, including the founders, the employees, and the angel investors/VCs who invested in them: 1. The startup is acquired outright by another company (M&A). The startup sells partial ownership to another company or investor (M&A). The startup organizes a Tender Offer. -

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FinSMEs

JULY 24, 2023

Mediobanca Group, an Italian investment bank, signed a partnership with Founders Factory, a London, UK-based global company builder and early-stage investor, to launch a new fintech venture studio and accelerator.

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SuperAngel.Fund

MARCH 25, 2024

He’s the bestselling author of two books on entrepreneurship. And, he writes a newsletter followed by over 27,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and tech leaders.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based Previously, Michael spent over 25 years in investment banking, working across asset classes, in various roles at Nomura Securities, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. billion ($3.72

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The Big Picture

JULY 2, 2024

I think a lot of startup founders are actually the opposite, where it’s like we choose to go to the moon, not because it’s easy, but because we think it’s going to be easy. And I always wondered why huge bureaucracies could sometimes lose to startups. That’s pretty rapid growth for a a startup.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

RITHOLTZ: And — and to — for a little context, maybe for some of the audience in America who may not be that familiar with Man Group, this isn’t like a startup. GREW: So, I got a call and this one was ultimately from a recruiter who’s working for Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, a bond house. RITHOLTZ: Uh-oh.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. It was very much a brokerage house with a growing, expanding investment bank. It wasn’t really a proprietary investing trading culture. In those years.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 30, 2024

And the rest of the pack includes Vanguard as well as a bunch of other much smaller clean sheet startups in, in the space. One is that small startup and the other is the company that has its own ongoing revenue source. What sort of advice would you give to a recent college grad interested in a career in either media or investing?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

It was underwriting, you know, it was like doing investment banking, underwriting public offerings. It was dealing with like the sort of guts of the bank and like new product development and capital and, and balance sheet. So like if you’re a fancy corporate lawyer, you wanna be an investment maker.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 11, 2024

We were basically dealing with 401k plans that were from startup to a hundred or so million. Investment banks, there’s two and a few others. But the brokerage houses, you know, Morgan and Merrill and the investment banks, multi-trillion dollars. Well, we have 60, 70,000 private clients. So they see a future.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

And so I left a OL for a startup in music. And we had gone to the chairman group to raise money and the chairman group said, Hey, you know, somebody made a throwaway comment in the meeting of, you know, we’ve just invested in this company you’ve never heard of called Barstool Sports. Of course you want some equity.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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SuperAngel.Fund

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Austin: I'm the type of person that needs a "Superbowl" kind of target to get me out of bed in the morning, and I love the part of startups that's about creating something from scratch. I started my career as an analyst in investment banking and then PE. And that is really exciting! Ben: Excel! Excel always fascinated me.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 25, 2023

With us, the law firm is basically a customer of MarketCounsel for a lot of our startup work. For most of the clients that come to us for startup work, right? And so, you can decide that you want to sever your employment and then begin the startup work, but that’s not tenable — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: No clue.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

Venture capital was the nomenclature for everything that was basically a private investment. RITHOLTZ: But you’re not dealing with startups; you’re dealing with — BARATTA: Correct. RITHOLTZ: — firms or private equity firms? BARATTA: Yeah. The first job for Morgan Stanley was McCown De Leeuw.

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Insight Partners

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In the SMB/knowledge worker space, startups like Bardeen are targeting simpler use cases using no-code platforms and a rapidly increasing library of reusable Agents across users. Executive reporting and knowledge retrieval (Production): A second investment bank leverages AI Agents to produce monthly executive briefing reports.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 4, 2025

Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. Really fascinating because she sees the world from a very unique perch, has incredible access to every aspect of both commercial and investing banking that a small startup or medium-sized company, and by medium I mean up to $2 billion in revenue might need.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Last fall, the company invited investment banks to pitch for roles in an IPO that could have valued the battery maker at US$20 billion, the FT then reported. Goldman Sachs’ investment banking business is also a large creditor of Northvolt; the battery company owes it $4.78mn, according to its Chapter 11 filing.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. You’ll remember IPOs back in the day, investment banks used to win them by saying, “We’ve got retail, give us that allocation, it doesn’t matter at all anymore.” RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Well, you know, I’m glad you brought up Apple because I think of all the things Steve Jobs did that made the kind of rebirth of Apple possible, the first was on the original iTunes disruption, he told the team, and this is, I think, well documented, act like you’re a startup. Don’t worry about legacy effects.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

You begin at a few tech startups, you found Dex, which eventually gets acquired by Lotus. What was the startup process like? He was running the h and q investment bank, and then Roger was my next door neighbor and very good friends with Jim. No, no doubt about that. This was mid 1980s, is that about right?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

He was on a traditional path at IBM stepped off it to go to this computer startup compact, then got picked up by Steve Jobs at Apple. Incredible group of people, small group. They were just starting to hire at the analyst level when I was getting done with school.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in 2020 I finally got to see it from the inside. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Wall Street Journal covering finance, investment banking and M&A.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

What are the advantages to being an individual making single decision investments into a startup? How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? 00:19:00 [Speaker Changed] I mean, that’s a well established mature, if you could say mature startup region, correct.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

That seems like there’s endless amounts of money around and, and no shortage of people willing to, to fund startups. So, so does that create opportunities for other companies to come in and be in disrupt disruptors, or are are they sort of blocking the, the entranceway to new startups that want to compete in that same space?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 23, 2024

Co-founder and managing partner at OvaTure Climate VC focuses on all sorts of fascinating startup and climate change technology, from concrete to energy production, to storage, to carbon capture, to material science, to alternative fuels. And a campaign is like a lot like a startup. It’s a really flat organization.

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