Over the years, Pipkin has apparently brought in just one outside investor, Summit Partners, in 2002.

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The Forbes Healthcare Summit was supported by partners Medidata and Masimo and supporters MITRE, BASF, Verizon, Cancer Treatment Centers Of America, Arthrex, and Onyx Pharmaceuticals.

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He was later a venture capitalist for six years at Accel Partners and the Summit Accelerator Fund where he invested in early stage internet infrastructure and enterprise software companies.

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Some 18, 000 participants representing 193 State Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and their partners attended the Nagoya Biodiversity Summit in Japan this October to agree a global deal to protect biodiversity.

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Eight former Polish foreign ministers said Mr Kaczynski's failure to give a credible reason for not taking part in the summit had shown contempt for Poland's partners.

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At the G8 summit, I'm going to urge our partners to join us in this unprecedented effort to fight these dreaded diseases.

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At the NATO Summit last year, we agreed with our coalition partners that Afghan forces will take the lead for security in mid-2013.

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The summit had been expanded to include countries of North Asia, and the ten had three important partners to impress: Japan, China and South Korea.

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And what I've said at the first summit that I came to, Summit of the Americas that I came to, was we do not believe there are junior partners and senior partners in this situation.

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We've seen it in the Summit of the Americas and in the APEC Leaders Forum, where we have agreed with our partners to build a free and open trading system, early in the next century.

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This is the first opportunity for the United States in the summit and I think this is going to be a very positive outcome and opportunity for the United States and our partners to be part of the East Asia forum.

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