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The Top 20 Venture Capitalists

CB Insights

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. He later joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers as a partner for a period between 1999 and 2003. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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A Tale of Two Cities (Conference Season)

Celent Banking

While my colleagues were spread out across the US covering conferences in Boston, New Orleans, and other locations, I spent four days in beautiful Barcelona covering the Temenos TCF 2016 Conference , followed by another three days in sunny Orlando covering the FIS Connect 2016 Conference.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. Bain (whose partners actually coined the phrase “$1M framework”) would create its own “insight product” in 2003 with the Net Promoter Score.