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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

This is effectively a sequel to my study of best practices in deal origination , published last year in the Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , and Business Insider. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Whitney Company by writing a personal check for $5M and hiring Benno Schmidt as the first partner (Schmidt turned Whitney’s description of “private adventure capital&# into the term “venture capital”). set up companies to do just that – find and formalize investments in new and emerging industries. In 1946 Jock Whitney started J.H.

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Bitesize Monday: Israeli Startup Headlines

VC Cafe

California-based Gigya , an Israeli startup developing social tools for websites, quietly raises $6 million according to a regulatory filing. Moshe Bar, a general partner in the fund is a former entrepreneur and chairman of Zooppa – full article. Gigya was founded in 2006 and has raised close to $30 million to date.