As the children and grandchildren of immigrants, we may not have been starving for actual food, but we are starved for affection.

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The result is that cash-rich software majors, options-rich startups and relationship-rich industry insiders have been sucking up all available quality talent among them, leaving other industries and economic sectors starving.

FORBES: The Rise of Developeronomics

For the first time in our history our credit markets have been rendered incapable of providing sufficient capital for small- and medium-size businesses, while starving startups and would-be startups of the wherewithal to grow to their full potential.

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