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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

LIFT10: Workshop on Hacking Venture Capital - Fred Destin , May 7, 2010 This morning at the excellent LIFT Conference I gave a two hour workshop on " Hacking Venture Capital " designed to give entrepreneurs a hands-on experience of (a) pitching and (b) negotiating with detailed debrief and tricks of the trade. Should I Get My MBA?

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry. Army, for example.