"I'm sitting on a mountain of deal flow, " he says, pointing to a box full of rejected business plans from some of the 2, 800 entrepreneurs who haven't made it onto the program but still show promise.

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In West Allis, a blue-collar suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clean-cut college students in pressed white shirts sat with Palm Pilots and a big box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, monitoring the flow of voters into the polls.

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Once this type of information starts to flow, it is very difficult to put back in the box.

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From a traffic flow point of view, the hole in the support on the far side of the box was occupied by a machine bolt with a nut loosely screwed into the end.

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But the play continued to flow in the direction of the Hibs goal and Andy Jackson, who replaced Samuel, turned in the box and had his shot deflected out.

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