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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up. The total return for all issues combined is -1.97%, according to IPOScoop.com.” ” (ix) The U.S.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM). RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

I came to the United States in 1992 at the age of 17 (so there, now you know exactly how old I am!) I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I figured I would share some of the background of this story here, as it may help make a case for the Founders Visa movement.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. There are some high profile studies which claim to show the superiority of serif typefaces ( Robinson et al., Gaultney, V.