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McComb’s School of Business Birthed uShip

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From a March 2004 Moot Corp Newsletter highlighting uShip’s performance in the San Diego State University Business Plan Competition: The uShip team is composed of four second-year students–Matt Chasen, Jay Manickam, Mickey Millsap and Todd Parsapour-whose start-up is uShip, a company that offers “ridesharing for your stuff.&#

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. Replay the event. the previous year.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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Psychophysics in Cyberia , Work Less Institute of Technology, November 18, 2004. Here is a collected list of documents I have either quoted from or consulted extensively. link] , Work Less Institute of Technology, originally by Sidney Chapman. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada.