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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. In October of 2004, Josh founded First Round Capital where he serves as General Partner to this day. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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Retail’s Small Business Crisis

PYMNTS

The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. And just like every other industry, there’s concentration.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

Unity Software, a software platform aimed at video-game developers, pursued a bidding-based approach to its IPO in September 2020, similar to the process used by Google when the search giant went public in 2004. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.