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This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

We'll talk to experts across the industry, including chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, Glenn Roberts, founder of Anson Mills, marketing whizzes from Rooster Design Group, and writer and Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser. Will scientists rule the kitchen? OVA has arranged screening events around the world.

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Austin’s opportunity to change America’s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders. Yet when we have a financial system that designs for one billionaire, and 99 broke founders, it’s no wonder inequality is at a 100-year high.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When my co-founder Mohan Balachandran and I initially considered names for our company, which offers HIPAA compliant hosting and integration tools for healthcare technology teams, we wanted our company name to represent action, so we chose the verb to catalyze rather than the noun catalyst. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.”

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 9: Jered Lawson and Chase Adam

Steve Blank

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Jered Lawson. Chase Adam. There are no donors. …

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. We set up a bunch of global surveillance systems like one called PREDICT that was supposed to find these diseases early on.