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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. Fix the patent office to keep up with the backlog.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others. The government will pay 40 percent of the wages of employees, up to a maximum wage of 25,000 shekels ($7,000) per month, during the first year of operation of the Barclays center.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. They’ve created virtual IPO’s for founders and employees via late-stage private financing. government for funding.

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These are the British Businesses Adopting Green and Sustainable Practices

The Startup Magazine

It was suggested as early as 2010, in a report by the European Commission that SMEs accounted for approximately 64% of the industrial pollution in Europe[3]. It appears as though consumer demand is motivating businesses to become more sustainable which is reinforced by government green tax breaks for energy-efficient SMEs. 1] [link].

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. » More. Loading… Markets. » More. » More.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. None of us though that on Sept 1, 2010, our lives would be changed forever. I embarked on my journey in October 2010 while still working a full time job. Thanks to Ostap Bosak, Royal Fur ! #17

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Market Timing Is A Skill Not Luck

Altgate

This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. Think about that.