Howard Morgan has been President of Arca Group, Inc. since 1989 and also serves as a Director of Idealab. Arca Group, Inc. is a consulting and venture capital investment management firm specializing in the area of computer and communications technologies. In 2005, he confounded First Round Capital, an early stage venture fund based outside of Philadelphia, PA
Morgan served as Professor of Decision Sciences at The Wharton School, and Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at The Moore School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1972 through 1985. He has been a Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School.
Howard Morgan received a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University and a B.S. in physics from City College of the City University of New York.
A classic example, we are currently biggest company or I think (inaudible) on the internet is, was called Cars Direct on the Internet Brands right? In 1998, Bill wants to buy a new BMW and he wants to see if he could do it on the internet because at that point on the internet you could buy $25 book...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Howard Morgan States Goal of IdeaLab Was To Take Away Initial Startup Concerns and Focus on Ideas
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