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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

While a student at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he began information services company Infonautics, which went public in 1996 (and was later acquired). After 4 years with the company, Brian joined Google as a Software Engineer and inevitably rose to become an Engineering Manager. JOSH KOPELMAN. JEFF JORDAN.

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Top 5 Total Return to Shareholders: #3 ESB Financial Corporation

Jeff For Banks

The rest of this post goes to our number 3 bank: #3: ESB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: ESBF) of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania ESB started in 1915 as the Ellwood Federal Savings and Loan in Ellwood City. It converted to a public company through a Mutual Holding Company conversion in 1990 and performed the second step conversion in 2001.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

in losses, declare bankruptcy at Westinghouse, and eventually to sell the Westinghouse unit to Brookfield Asset Management. In the early 2000s, venerable retailers Sears and Kmart began losing ground to Walmart and Target, with Kmart even filing for Chapter 11 in 2002. Date: September 3, 2001. eBay and Skype. Price: $2.6B.

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