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Though she did various free-market things, to America's delight, she was no free-trader, and approved of co-operative ventures at every level.
Former Microsoft CTO and Intellectual Ventures co-founder Nathan Myhrvold, who also spoke at EmTech about energy, said there should be a massive increase in research and development to address the daunting challenges in energy.
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Trick Dog, a bar in the Mission District that opened in January, is backed by Tony Conrad, a partner at True Ventures, and Digg Inc. co-founder and Google Ventures venture capitalist Kevin Rose, among others.
Myhrvold, who used to be the chief technology officer at Microsoft, co-founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000.
The other investors included RRE Ventures, co-founded by former American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people ) chief James D.
He spent a decade with that firm, then served as Vice President of Intellectual Ventures before co-founding his new company, Smartsheet, headed by CEO Mark Mader.
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Rock Spring Ventures EU is co-led by Sinclair Dunlop, who recently returned from the US to his native Scotland to launch the new fund.
Through fostering smart ideas, mobilizing smart people and supporting the co-creation of smart ventures with community leaders, George Roter has been able to transform EWB into an organization capable of producing sustainable system-changing solutions.
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My best shot was back in 2000 when a company I had co-founded, Garage Technology Ventures, had planned to go public.
The pop-ups could eventually lead to "ventures across the country, " said co-owner Marco Maccioni.
It proved to be the first of several successful business ventures, one of them being the Weider Barbell Co.
Khosla Ventures run by uber venture capitalist and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, the Founders Fund from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Innovation Endeavors from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt contributed to the round.
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The company, which appears to previously have been known as Wiseview Research, is run by co-CEOs Justin Behar and John Mecklenburg, and funded by Catamount Ventures and Simon Equity Partners.
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This article was co-authored by Michael Yang, a partner at DEV (Digital Entertainment Ventures).
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"In five years people will be panicked with the lack of high-end wine, " says Richard Wollack, co-CEO of PPV (which is involved with Forbes Inc. in wine ventures).
So far it has a dozen or so such low-cost joint ventures, including a 50-50 deal announced in December with Petrochemical Industries Co. of Kuwait.
"We feel good about our investment with Intellectual Ventures, " says Bruce Zimmerman, who runs the University of Texas Investment Management Co.
As a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, former partner at Kleiner Perkins, and founder at Khosla Ventures, Khosla shared some of his insights into how successful startups should approach their work.
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After AOL Inc. bought the Huffington Post, the media site's co-founder, Kenneth Lerer, left to focus on his new seed investment firm, Lerer Ventures.
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