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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. I took this picture of Rob, Michael Galpert, and Danny Wen of Harvest. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. Publicly traded emerging growth companies are the most rapid job creation engine in America, and successfully harvesting the long-term economic growth fruits from basic scientific research is tethered to this post-IPO job creation engine. In the 1990s the U.S.

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12 Terrific Coworking Spaces in Chicago

crowdSPRING Blog

Besides the financial benefits that sharing space provides, coworking offers access to networking and communities that can be invaluable to any new or growing business. Since 2007 it’s helped find, fund, and nurture technology companies out of its 65,000 square foot workspace in downtown’s Lyric Opera building. Merchandise Mart Plaza.

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Thoughts for New Angels - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

» July 20, 2007. I was in Italy a couple of weeks ago at the request of the US State Department to discuss angel investing with IBAN, the Italian Business Angels Network. It is a never ending process of innovation, Identification of opportunity; marshalling resources; action/exploitation; and, harvesting. Enter your Email.

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Transcript of Monetize Your Expertise and Thrive

Duct Tape Marketing

She is a marketing and strategy consultant and frequent contributor to Harvest … not Harvest, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and Forbes. Whereas, if you happened to join in 2006 or 2007 and even if you were a regular person, you could become the Twitter celebrity and gain a lot of traction as a result of that.

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