Well, in one example, I would rather bet on a population of start-ups--a rich ecology, if you would--to solve the big intractable problems of this world instead of a single large corporation, a monoculture.
She sees the Commonwealth Games - and possibly another Asian Games too - as run-ups to a full-scale Olympic bid, for which 2016 is the earliest date possible.
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Sheboygan Falls, a modestly-sized city of about 7, 600 residents in northeast Wisconsin, is not commonly considered to be a hot-spot for clean-technology start-ups or a haven for green-minded consumers.
Bijan Sabet, our lead investor, is somebody who back when I was running my little consulting company, before Tumblr, we were a little software company called Davidville and I was working on a bunch of start-ups at the time, a couple start-ups that got funded both through Spark Capital and Bijan.
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The few shots we took on auto looked quite vibrant in a variety of lighting conditions, though the close-ups showed a disturbingly shallow depth of field -- though that could obviously be tweaked.
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Walks around the block, push-ups during a coffee break or stretches at their desks can give a much-needed little boost.
The company has managed to attract in a lot of start-ups that have a relationship with Philips or are a co-investment.
All shops have to do is log deliveries and pick-ups through a website that automatically sends e-mail and text-message alerts to addressees.
Nokia's dream phone of the future may at the moment be nothing more than a few plastic mock-ups and a lot of imagination, but it clearly has a powerful sway over the researchers who conceived it.
This advice is as old as the interview process itself, but many candidates still fail to follow it, especially in the casual world of tech start-ups: Send a thank-you note.
London-based business development firm Launchpad Europe is looking for a few good start-ups worldwide for a shot at some real venture capital cash.
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Also on the arm: a camera that can take extreme close-ups and a spectrometer to determine the different elements in rocks.
Oxford Entrepreneurs is one of the university's most popular societies, with 3, 600 student members and a record of creating about six start-ups a year.
Industry and the economy make up 12% of the New Year Honours list, with Priscilla Newell, Chair of the Royal Mail Pension Trustees, becoming a dame and Sherry Coutu, a long-time supporter of UK start-ups, a CBE for services to entrepreneurship.
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And while it probably goes without saying that at least a few still fetch coffee for the higher-ups, a fair number of administrative and executive assistants would probably look askance at a boss who asked them to stop answering phones, planning for meetings and dealing with the time-consuming minutiae of keeping an office functioning to do a personal task like that.
There are panoramic aerial battles on Krypton, there are touching moments between young Clark Kent and both his biological and adoptive fathers, there are close-ups of a fist pounding into ice, and there is lots and lots of big-budget flying.
Facebook, Apple and a raft of start-ups are all trying to develop a low-cost payment system, which could be a lucrative undertaking in itself.
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Mr. Senkut, who has invested in more than 60 start-ups as an angel investor since 2005, says he raised a super-angel fund because he wants to shift from being a minority investor in start-ups to taking majority stakes more often.
WorldShare landed 30, 000 members in 45 days, swamping its staff and forcing a halt to new sign-ups for almost a month.
Since forming in 2004, the group has invested in 36 technology start-ups, including a dozen that are led by first-time entrepreneurs.
Accounting hang-ups in a critical part of the world proved troublesome for the heavy equipment maker.
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What start-ups hired a woman as their first employee and who were the women hired?
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Giving Internet start-ups a tax break seemed the patriotic thing to do a decade ago.
Did you actually know that there are in the order of 800 meet-ups a month now?
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But grown-ups, a lot of the stuff we do is stuff we don't want to do, you know?
Cleverly, the event's organizers only gave 50 start-ups a shot at pitching their company to the roughly 2, 000 attendees.
The protocol can be used running, swimming, biking, or while performing weighted or bodyweight resistance movements (push-ups are a personal favorite).
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Obviously, it remains to be seen whether the resurgence (which has amounted to roughly 40, 000 new sign-ups a day) will continue.
Some think that the Valley's larger listed companies can take up the slack by acquiring more start-ups (a trend that has been growing).
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