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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

David Goldhill, in his enlightening book Catastrophic Care , declared: “…a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at the center of the system. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x

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