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FinSMEs (blog)
January 12, 2018
Led by managing partners Kenneth Lerer, Ben Lerer, and Eric Hippeau, Lerer Hippeau Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm investing entrepreneurs “with product vision, consumer insight, focused execution, and unwavering ambition“. Investment focus in on enterprise software, consumer,Ãâà...
New York Times
August 7, 2017
The Huffington Post was conceived after John Kerry's loss to George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, and was supported at its outset by a slate of Democratic boosters including Arianna Huffington and the venture capitalist Kenneth Lerer. The Daily Caller, a conservative web publication, got itsÃâà...
CNBC
July 18, 2017
Trust, timing & understanding the three key components in making investment decisions: Kenneth Lerer. 8:19 AM ET Tue, 18 July 2017. Kenneth Lerer, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, and Ben Lerer, Group Nine Media CEO, share their basic investing guidelines and some of their favorite funding plays. Watch CNBC Live TVÃâà...
Recode
June 26, 2017
On this episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Ken Lerer came by the studio to chat about where media is heading. And he should know. Lerer co-founded the Huffington Post, worked at AOL and MTV back in the day, sits on the boards of BuzzFeed and Viacom, and invests in seed-stage startupsÃâà...
Recode
June 8, 2017
Lerer, who previously helped start MTV and is a board member at Viacom, shares what he has learned on the latest Recode Media. By Eric Johnson@HeyHeyESJ Jun 8, 2017, 6:30am EDT. Share Tweet Share. Share What's the future of media? Ask BuzzFeed chairman and HuffPost co-founder Ken Lerer. share tweetÃâà...
CNNMoney
May 16, 2017
If there's anyone who knows what it's like to weather a crippling cyberattack, it's Michael Lynton. Lynton helmed Sony Entertainment (SNE) when it was the target of a massive hack in December 2014. Hackers, who were linked to the North Korean government, crashed the company's computer systems andÃâà...
CNNMoney
June 17, 2016
His dad is Kenneth Lerer, Arianna Huffington's cofounder on The Huffington Post and a chairman at BuzzFeed. In addition to running Thrillist, Lerer is also a managing partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, a New York City fund that's invested in startups like Casper and PureWow. He's also personally invested in others likeÃâà...
CNNMoney
June 7, 2016
On the same week that BuzzFeed's CEO terminated an advertising deal with the Republican National Committee, BuzzFeed's chairman is hosting a fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee. BuzzFeed says the two actions are completely unrelated, and there is no evidence to the contrary. But theÃâà...
Jewish Business News
June 26, 2014
Kenneth Lerer was a founding partner of New York-based corporate communications firm Robinson, Lerer, and Montgomery. Lerer has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, University of Pennsylvania and New York University, where he lectured on the media and AmericanÃâà...
New York Times
February 7, 2011
That's where Kenneth Lerer, its lesser known partner, came into play. The friendship between Ms. Huffington and Mr. Lerer, a former AOL executive, almost did not happen. He said his first impulse was to say no when his friend Tom Freston, then the head of Viacom, suggested the two meet for dinner backÃâà...
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