No. 2 Ohio State had managed to escape as the lone high seed left in the NCAA tournament's most-busted bracket.
"The way it's changed since 2000 is, a high seed used to get you out of the first weekend, " Izzo said.
For them, competing with American farmers on vast fields with high-tech machines, high-quality seed and high-value subsidies is like attacking a battleship with a machete.
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Nothing moved among the green leafy stalks, which were head high and surmounted by feathers of seed.
These may be challenging financial times, but VCs are busy and the number of seed companies is amazingly high.
Grassed areas along the road were reinstated using aqua seeding, a process by which grass seed is sprayed using high-pressure pumps.
Chongqing Holley, a sister company of Kunming's, has set up a research laboratory in Hunan to help it identify high-yielding plants and establish a seed bank.
Like Y-Combinator, TechStars and other U.S. incubators, Innovation Works attracts top entrepreneurs and engineering talent with seed funding, office space and high-profile mentoring from the likes of Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Guitar Hero founders Kai and Charles Huang.
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But the question is whether or not the seed money will flow into the non high-tech areas.
However Spanish tenth seed Anabel Medina Garrigues became the first high-profile casualty of the tournament, losing 7-5 6-3 to 98th ranked Australian Anastasia Rodionova.
Provide tax incentives to create locally-managed angel funds and seed and early-stage capital focused on minority high-growth entrepreneurs.
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Ljubicic, who reached a career-high third in the world rankings in 2006, will face American seventh seed Andy Roddick in Sunday's final.
With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a single idea:that amorphous and disordered materials could be better and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.
With only a high school and trade school education, he parlayed a pair of early inventions into seed money for a company based upon a revolutionary idea of physics: that a random, amorphous collection of atoms would be more powerful and cheaper than structured, crystalline ones to create and store energy and information.
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He also cofounded the seed investing firm Founder Collective and has worked at Bessemer Venture Partners and at a high speed options trading firm.
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