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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

Perhaps this is why the Kuwait Investment Authority put $165 million into Jawbone and Saudi’s PIF put $3.5 We estimate that the top 5 US tech firms have more than $500 billion in cash sitting abroad and if this is brought back to the US it is likely to increase: R&D expenditure, M&A deals and Venture Capital financings.

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Confessions of a Privileged White Male and Former Conservative

This is going to be BIG.

What he also did, unlike Giuliani, was advocate civilian review boards and neighborhood policing where cops worked together with their communities as partners. Kicking Saddam's ass out of Kuwait made us feel good and patriotic. I was way more "self made" than the Ivy Leaguers who went into finance.

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