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Partnering up in early 1957 with a fellow researcher, Harlan Anderson, Olsen secured $70,000 from Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot, who had established a tech-focused investment fund he called “venture capital” to support young and untested entrepreneurs. Olsen and Anderson departed MIT and moved into a shuttered textile mill in the

To top it all off, I was delighted to discover that only three brokerage firms covered La Quinta in 1978,

Lynch’s most important tool was his telephone, not his computer. He’d regularly call, or sometimes visit, a network of well-placed executives, asking for updates on their businesses, competitors, suppliers, customers, and more. These were legal tactics at the time, even though smaller investors couldn’t access the same information.

Henry Laufer’s group, which traded all these investments, was on a roll. Laufer’s key strategies—including buying on the most propitious days of the week, as well as at the ideal moments of the day—remained

Thus, with Farley’s open cooperation, the trio of Hill, Kittson, and Smith began probing to see what sort of offer might be sufficient to interest the Dutch bondholders, who were understandably nervous about their jeopardized investment.

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Spångberg, who was frequently the lone woman in a male landscape,

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