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The 10 Best Teams Ever Assembled (And What We Can Learn From Them)

YoungUpstarts

The 1992 team’s roster reads like a list of the greatest NBA players ever: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley. Although we now know the Nazis would not succeed in their efforts to build an atomic bomb, scientists and government officials in 1939 had no such knowledge.

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Book: Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

Feld Thoughts

I’ve loved Alan Lightman’s writing and the idea of a human that behaves like Alan Lightman since I read his first book Einstein’s Dreams when it came out in 1992. Lightman is an astrophysicist, novelist, essayist, and educator.

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

Pascal's View

government dataset compiled by the U.S. government policy ‘thenext big thing will not be invented here. The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). Census Bureau. warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S.

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What No One Ever Tells You About Business Failures

Up and Running

a California corporation, became an Oregon corporation in 1992, and the California corporation died in 1994. But actually there was an Infoplan, Inc., a Delaware corporation that sprung up when the sole proprietorship died, and that Delaware corporation became Palo Alto Software, Inc., a California corporation. Palo Alto Software, Inc.,

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Reversing Unintended Consequences From Regulation is Critical to Restoring Small Company IPO’s

Pascal's View

Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. Second, emerging growth companies lose negotiating leverage in acquisitions when they have no other viable liquidity alternatives.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

crowdSPRING Blog

Founded by David Turner and Bruce Duckworth in 1992, the firm now has three offices that are its “secret weapon,” according to the site. Dutch National Police, Transavia, Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Dutch Railways, EUNL, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, NPO, Randstad, The Dutch Government. Glenlivet, and many more. courtesy of Dessein.

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

Since 1992, Congress has diverted nearly $1 billion in applicant-paid fees already earned by the USPTO to other uses (like the 2010 census), leaving the patent office unable to deal with the threefold increase in patent applications over the last 20 years. Fix the patent office to keep up with the backlog.