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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

Up and Running

A Harvard Business School report, “ The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation ,” declares that large banks approve only 33 percent of loans under $100,000, compared to 60 percent approved by small banks. But don’t fret—community lenders are helping small businesses. in Maine.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Brad on blogging. was starting.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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Entrepreneurs and #RubyRiot In Boston

Feld Thoughts

.&# While I think the bay area is a special place, anyone that knows me knows that I strongly believe there are several great entrepreneurial communities throughout the US and the potential for many more. Boston has always been a great entrepreneurial community. I’m an easy mark so I jumped in the boat.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Technology Live. But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. Our vision for the school is to support the local ecosystem and our community, so this is fabulous," he says.

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Irene brings rain, flooding and end of news as we know it [#irene]

This is going to be BIG.

On June 17, 1994, the whole country was interrupted by broadcast news—us New Yorkers were watching Patrick Ewing and the Knicks in the NBA Finals. Twitter kept me informed by the right sources, in good spirits, and instilled a sense of community with others nearby—even if I couldn’t reach them by subway.

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