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The Business Insider is a new business site with deep financial, entertainment, green tech and digital industry verticals. The flagship vertical, Silicon Alley Insider, launched in 2007, led by DoubleClick founders Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan and former top-ranked Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget.

The Business Insider aims to build the leading online business news site for the digital age, dedicated to aggregating, reporting and analyzing the top news stories of the day and delivering them at rapid-fire pace.

Henry Blodget

CEO/Editor in Chief / Member since 2009

Henry Blodget is CEO & Editor-in-Chief of The Business Insider.
Henry has recently contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, Newsweek International, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes Online, Business 2.0, Euromoney, New York, Financial Times, and other publications. He is the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Investing. He has been a frequent guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.
From 1994-2001, Henry worked in corporate finance and equity research at Prudential Securities, Oppenheimer & Co., and Merrill Lynch. He ran Merrill's global Internet research practice and was ranked the No. 1 Internet and eCommerce analyst on Wall Street by Institutional Investor and Greenwich Associates.

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    Ask Henry: Who to Hire, Board Meetings and More

    Henry Blodget

    Jan 12, 2011 - We recently asked you to send in small businesses questions to Henry Blodget, Editor in Chief of Business Insider and OPEN Forum expert. In today's column he answers questions on hiring and board meetings, and offers a few insider tips that every entrepreneur know. You can send your questions to Henry here. Q: Do you have any advice on hiring? A: Hire people you like. This seems obvious but it's rarely cited as an important hiring criteria. You don't have to like an employee for the job to

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    Ask Henry: Ideas vs. Execution

    Henry Blodget

    Dec 28, 2010 - Q: What's more important: having a brilliant idea or execution? A: Execution -- without question. Ideas are a dime a dozen. Many entrepreneurs will have three or four ideas before breakfast, at least one of which will be good. In the technology industry, four to five startups often launch at about the same time with the same idea. Of these, only one goes on to rule the industry, one becomes a strong number two, and the rest become also-rans. The difference is execution. To put it

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    Ask Henry: Building a Strong Business

    Henry Blodget

    Dec 16, 2010 -

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