But it was already too big for me to get a true start up experience.
Jenny Chen, a young woman who was vice president of an Internet start-up company, proudly showed me her office, where a model of Capitol Hill not the Forbidden City stood on her desk.
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Before a recent business trip to Israel, someone handed me a copy of "Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, " a book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer about Israel's culture of innovation and entrepreneurialism.
Again, sitting at a little table waiting for a program to start, a conversation was struck up between me and a very tired guy.
So as you all start gearing up for the next four days, let me just put some things in perspective, just how close these elections are.
Hold up Big Ten fans..before you start emailing me with all the reasons why the SEC number might be higher, let me explain another way to look at these numbers.
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Stylitics investor Kirsten Green, managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, told me she'd be less inclined to fund a start-up based in Philly, simply because of the logistical hassles: "I focus on companies in San Francisco and New York, " she says.
And there, unbeknownst to me is TechCrunch story number 5, an article about the start-up founded by my oldest daughter Kit: With Tech From Space, Ministry of Supply is Building the Next Generation of Dress Shirts.
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My friend, the late Ron Morris (founder of The American Entrepreneur radio show) often told me that when he was considering whether to invest in a start-up, he would look at three things: the business model, the quality of the entrepreneur himself, and the external market.
One of the most interesting things he told me in November was that he wants Evernote to be a 100 year start-up.
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This is not in the article but was tweeted at me by Ashk4n and may provide further reason to read the piece: At a Start-up School talk last month, Palantir co-founder Stephen Cohen bragged about how his pattern-finding start-up makes grizzled government types turn into giddy teenagers ( 15:00 min mark).
The following year, the band released its Words of Sound EP before following it up with the full-length Pontus, the Devil, and Me at the start of 2008.
"It's been a good start to the season for me and I suppose it's good that my new contact talks are coming up, " he said.
As co-founder of a start-up called Fashion Project, she has a vision for bridging fashion with charity, which made me reconsider the possibilities of both industries.
Inevitably the onlookers would start to shout, "Draw him, draw her, draw me, " and Sandy would take up the exhortation, if only to stop them from screaming in his ear.
As its director, Jodi Goldstein, explained to me in a July 30 interview, HIL brings together students from across Harvard to work on start-up projects rent-free while tapping a network of experts.
And for reasons that are unclear to me, Google Shopping will start charging those vendors to list their products on the service that has up until now been free, reports the New York Times.
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And then, before you start using my perceived tone as a contrary indicator, let me say that I am not suggesting that things will be up-up-and-away from here.
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