Posts Tagged with fundamental

New VC Regulation Looms Large

I just finished reading an op-ed piece in the New York Times that was written by New York University School of Business Professor Eric Dinallo and Venture Capital managing director Alan Patricof. The piece revolves around pending legislation in the Senate that seeks to further regulate the body of financial instruments available to private pools [...]

Filed under: Business, News on August 31st, 2009 @ 4:50 pm

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Charity 2.0: Surviving the Crowded Space

While there’s little doubt that social media mainstays like Facebook and Twitter have been wildly successful at connecting groups of friends, musicians and fans, business and consumer and relatively recently, non-profits and philanthropists, but particularly where the latter is concerned, when is a saturation point reached?
CNET examines this question as increasing numbers of charities get [...]

Are We Failing to Capitalize on Green Tech Innovation?

An insightful editorial from the Washington Post authored by John Doerr, partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Jeff Immelt, chairman and chief executive of General Electric, points to the tremendous opportunities in the market for Green Tech solutions and America’s failure capitalize by taking the lead on innovation in this [...]

Questions Arise on Benefits of Routine Cancer Screening

After years of hearing about the prudence of self-exam, and the routine screening for almost every type of cancer, including breast, ovarian, prostate, and others, new opinions are coming to light on the subject that brings this thinking into question.
One factor in this debate is the general costs applied to the healthcare systems as a [...]

Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 17th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm

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Creating a Personalized Economy Online

Tyler Cowen gives us a taste of his upcoming book, “Create Your Own Economy,” in a recent piece for Fast Company that touches on some of the fundamental ways our online “economies” are changing our ideas about growth, production and success. As we shift further away from the tangible and actual towards the mental and [...]

Filed under: Business, News, Technology on July 8th, 2009 @ 9:52 am

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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.

As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.