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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

They figured that consumers and media would flock to cover the story when they unveiled the giant treat in New York’s Union Square. But, as Murphy’s law dictates, when something can go wrong, it will and it happened that the temperature shot up into the 80s in New York City that day. Who would have thought?

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion ” that the best performing VC funds are based in the major venture centers (Silicon Valley, Boston, and the New York area), but their best investments are outside of those geographies.