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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

Geographically our strategy is to fund about 50% of our deals in Southern California (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) and 50% of our deals on a national basis. You can usually find 2-3 investors per location but it’s not uncommon to see VCs in: Boston, NY, Connecticut, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, St.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

We have evolved into an educational organization, holding investor education events in New Jersey , NY, Florida, Connecticut, Toronto, and San Francisco, as well as many webinars. At Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY , we’ve seen enormous appetite for angel education among high net worths and family offices.

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Sick Leave for Your Employees: Why it Matters

crowdSPRING Blog

San Francisco, for instance, in 2007 passed the first such law and in 2012 Connecticut became the first state requiring such coverage. Current Federal law mandates that employees may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family or medical reasons, without losing their health insurance or being in danger of losing their job.

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Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

Some of the best cities to work in the US to get paid well for being a statistician are ; Connecticut, Bridgeport. California, San Francisco. California, San Jose. With the best-paid 25 percent making $118,790 that year, and the lowest-paid 25 percent still made $68,480. Massachusetts, Boston. North Carolina, Raleigh.

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HBS Alumni Angels NY new chairman: Jason Klein

David Teten

HBSAANY has evolved into an educational organization, holding investor education events in NY , Florida , New Jersey , Connecticut , and San Francisco , as well as many webinars. Competitiveness Project , which challenged the HBS alumni community to address America’s declining competitiveness. 1) Curriculum innovation.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. Calm Down, Hippies: What San Francisco needs to Learn from the Valley Might The Mac App Store Lead To A New Class Of Micro-Apps? The ecosystem is just hard to beat.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeremy Howard : I'm Jeremy Howard, a research scientist at the University of San Francisco. So we left San Francisco a long time before the lockdown happened, went somewhere remote, but reasonably close to a good hospital. So in places like San Francisco, people thought as summer came, "Oh, wow we're past it.