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Etsy Purchases Reverb For $275M
Monday, July 22, 2019 - 9:38am | 159Read More...Etsy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETSY) will acquire online used and vintage musical instruments platform Reverb Holdings, Inc. for $275 million in cash. Reverb will operate as a standalone business when the deal closes. The company was founded in Chicago in 2013 on the principle that buying musical instruments...
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A Latin American Angel Investor's Advice On How To Succeed In Tech
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - 1:01pm | 563Read More...Benzinga recently examined Merlin, a jobs platform that matches mostly blue-collar hourly talent with employers looking to hire. One of the co-founders, Güimar Vaca Sittic, a New York-based tech entrepreneur and prolific angel investor who's backed more than 100 companies, shared...
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Meet The 28-Year-Old Immigrant Behind An App Helping Blue-Collar Workers Find Decent Jobs Quickly
Monday, October 8, 2018 - 5:00pm | 774Read More...New York City has been a great home to Güimar Vaca Sittic, co-founder and co-CEO at Merlin, but he knows that isn't the case for many hourly workers getting by in the Big Apple. “Gentrification has become such a big problem in New York that many workers commute for hours every day....
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Roger McNamee: 'The Fundamentals In The Tech Sector Are Actually Pretty Reasonable'
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 3:12pm | 384Read More...Several stocks in the tech sector, including LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD), Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) and Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), are down for the year, and the NASDAQ has been shedding its gains continuously over the last 15 days. Roger McNamee, Reverb executive chairman and Elevation Partners co-...
