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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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This week, entrepreneurs from all around the world have converged upon East London to attend the Tech City Entrepreneurs Festival. The festival is part of an ongoing initiative by the British government to encourage development and growth in the city's tech startup community. What is the Tech City Investment Organization?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 4.0 – Wireless is the next big thing – hurry!

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Again, like most opportunistic entrepreneurs, part of our growth plan was to raise venture capital.

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