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Go-Getters Showcase

Mike Michalowicz

We are “El Tucano”, a catering business for children’s meals in schools and kindergartens in Germany in the central region around Frankfurt. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Simon Rothschild. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. or 608-542-0880.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Fortunately, virtually all of these local VCs want to coinvest with reputable US VCs. . Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Two of our companies have African-American CEOs; two have Latino CEOs. (I

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Fortunately, virtually all of these local VCs want to coinvest with reputable US VCs. . Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Two of our companies have African-American CEOs; two have Latino CEOs. (I

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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From the Work Less Institute of Technology, “ Psychophysics in Cyberia ” (written in response to the ea_spouse posting): It was over a century ago that Dr. Ernst Abbe conducted his observations on working time and output at the Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany. Acknowledgments. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website.

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