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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

Since 1992, Congress has diverted nearly $1 billion in applicant-paid fees already earned by the USPTO to other uses (like the 2010 census), leaving the patent office unable to deal with the threefold increase in patent applications over the last 20 years. As of January 2011, there are a staggering 1.2

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

John has invested in various small businesses and served as a mentor and branding authority since his beginnings in 1992. He envisioned a means for long-distance partners and team members to stay in touch when he founded the audio-visual cloud conferencing platform Zoom in 2011. I consider her a great turnaround success story!

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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

YoungUpstarts

The 1992 team’s roster reads like a list of the greatest NBA players ever: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley. On May 2, 2011, the team cemented their spot as some of the greatest soldiers in history by killing America’s Public Enemy Number One, Osama bin Laden.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. Gregg Sheehan says: March 4, 2011 at 10:53 pm. Alex Poole says: March 7, 2011 at 9:44 pm. Alex Poole says: January 21, 2011 at 5:00 pm.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter: July 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

for both 2011 and 2012 from its previous growth forecast of 4.3%, noting that the Israeli economy “remains one of the robust and well managed among both the developed and the emerging market economies.&#. For previous editions, click here. MORGAN STANLEY SEES ISRAELI GROWTH AT 4.8%. FDI IN ISRAEL IN JUNE RISES ABOVE MONTHLY AVERAGE.

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Post Mortem… literally.

This is going to be BIG.

I hope one day we can look back at May 1, 2011 as the day the US stopped playing cops and robbers, and finished, on a victorious note, the last nearly 100 years of fighting around the world. on all our computers back in 1992. Let’s stop making tools of war, and instead make things that make war unnecessary.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. 1992 Recommendations. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. But the company began to struggle after its relationship with Yahoo Inc. fell apart early that year, Mr. Dreymann says. A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based