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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 https://medium.com/media/a9623767f56815010e95fe3083dcb161/href Huge note of appreciation to Chang Xu of Upfront Ventures who tirelessly helped me track down data, verify hypothesis, shape narrative and debate conclusions.

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Confessions of a Privileged White Male and Former Conservative

This is going to be BIG.

What I didn't know at the time was how much the media reinforced that. 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.

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