That sort of argument might sound reminiscent of medieval debates about angels and the heads of pins.
Maybe Honest Abe was right after all about the better angels of our nature.
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In 1974 Michael Shaara published a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels, about the Battle of Gettysburg.
In America, according to one estimate, angels introduce about two-fifths of the new investment opportunities seen by venture-capital firms.
VCs fund 1, 500-2, 000 new companies every year, and angels fund about 60, 000.
You hear the creak of caskets opening, the tap of tiny feet as cherubs dance excitedly, and the clanking of cast-iron doors as angels go about their business on narrow lanes lined with weeping widows.
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The Los Angeles Angels are paying about a half-billion dollars for three players: Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton, and C.
Whether the sale of gametes diminishes the value of life by putting a price on it and whether the contribution of women to this growing market is adequately compensated are the kinds of questions about which you could set thousands of angels into motion on the head of a pin.
Each unit about to deploy trains its own "guardian angels" - soldiers who stand watch over their comrades, even when they are with their Afghan allies at a meeting, or "shura".
Both business schools and businesses have been talking about it for years without turning business people into angels (one of the loudest advocates was Ken Lay, the chairman of Enron).
About half of their members are men as are half their angels so it is already building a diverse network.
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You and I might disagree, for example, about the proper ends of society, or we might as non-angels have differing selfish interests.
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Last year, David Teten, a partner at at ff Venture Capital and founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, delivered a presentation to HBS alumni about the many ways that operating executives can work with venture capital and private equity firms.
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But, even assuming that Mr Eigen is on the side of the angels, that still raises the question: what on earth can he do about it?
Already, there are medieval how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin debates about which method is most appropriate.
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