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Assunta Krehl

Want to learn about innovation? Head to Toronto - Business Innovation Factory - 0 views

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Martin Prosperity Institute MaRS creativity

shared by Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Probably most impressive was The MaRS Centre - an old hospital converted into a non-profit innovation centre connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills, networks and capital. The building is undeniably cool. Located in Toronto’s “Discovery District” -- two square kilometres have been designated as the city’s center of innovation. The MaRS Centre is a gateway of sorts to Canada’s largest concentration of scientific research. It’s anchored by major teaching hospitals, the University of Toronto and more than two dozen affiliated research institutes.
  • MaRS Centre from the outside
  • MaRS was created in 2000. The founding group raised significant capital (almost $100 million from all three levels of government and both institutional and individual private sector donors and an additional $130 million of debt and credit lease instruments were also secured) to support the development. What’s so clear is that leadership to drive public/private sector collaboration is required to effect real change. Many credit Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty for helping to not only create the MaRS Centre but also invigorate the region as a whole.
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  • Martin has transformed the Rotman School from a mediocre Canadian business school to a world-class institution. It’s one of the few business schools around with an innovative curriculum built around the fundamentals of design thinking. Martin believes designers approaches to thinking and problem-solving can and should be applied to all components of business (He calls it integrative thinking and business design.) Most of our own processes here at the Business Innovation Factory are firmly rooted in design thinking principles.
  • Martin also managed to lure Richard Florida to Toronto in 2007 to direct the Rotman School's new $120-million Martin Prosperity Institute. Spinning off from much of Florida's research, the institute's goal is to build a leading think-tank on the role of sub-national factors – location, place and city-regions – in global economic prosperity. By taking an integrated view of prosperity, the institute will look beyond economic measures to include the importance of quality of place and the development of people’s creative potential. I'm looking forward to ongoing conversations with our new friends at the Rotman school. I suspect there might even be a collaboration or two about to happen as well. Bottom line: if you want to learn about innovation, Toronto is the place to be.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Chris Flanagan talks about the benefits of moving to Toronto and the great work happening at the MaRS Centre. Mention of Martin transforming the Rotman School to a "world-class institution" ... that has "an innovative curriculum built around the fundamentals of design thinking." There is also a mention of the Martin Prosperity Institute spin off.
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Chris Flanagan talks about the benefits of moving to Toronto and the great work happening at the MaRS Centre. Mention of Martin transforming the Rotman School to a "world-class institution" ... that has "an innovative curriculum built around the fundamentals of design thinking." There is also a mention of the Martin Prosperity Institute spin off. Oct 30, 2008
Assunta Krehl

Toronto's place in the "creative economy" - Excalibur - 0 views

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Creativity Clients_Tenants Martin Prosperity Institute

shared by Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09 - Cached
  • What is this creative economy? It is an economic system that relies most on ideas to serve as its major capital, instead of services or physical capital. Take Google for example. In an economy based on ideas, the potentialfor breakaway successes like Google is far greater.
  • According to Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class: And How it’s Transforming Work, Leisure,Community and Everyday Life, members of the creative class are very different from those who are employed in the manufacturing, service or agriculture industries. They contribute to our economy primarily by producing the new forms and ideas exploited by our various industries and decision-makers.   What Florida terms the “super creative core” of this new class includes “scientists and engineers, university professors, poets and novelists, artists, entertainers, actors, designersand architects, as well as the ‘thought leadership’ of modern society: non-fiction writers, editors, cultural figures, think-tank researchers, analysts and other opinion-makers.”
  • What sets a creative city apart from a non-creative city? Florida proposes that it is the “three Ts of economic development”: technology, talent and tolerance.
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  • Florida promote a drawback on new capital investments in such traditional creative staples as ballet, opera, symphony and museums. Although these are necessary public entertainment options to maintain, studies show the majority of university students and young to middle-aged professionals who make up the bulk of the emerging creative class, in fact, prefer more accessible venues.
  • Florida is not saying the city should fund the construction of all these venues, but should support them with entrepreneurial assistance, specified tax-cuts and governmenttools to ease operation, like streamlining the bureaucracy behind applying for liquor licences and permits for musical events and public attractions.
  • The MaRS centre, located at College St. and University Ave. in downtown Toronto, is a fantastic first step in better integrating the city’s creative talents in the technology and science fields. But more buildings and communities like this need to be developed to take advantage of all of Toronto’s creative economic potential.
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09
     
    David Tal contributer to Excalibur exams what is the creative economy. Mention of MaRS being a fantastic first step in integrating the city's creative talents in technology and science.
  • Assunta Krehl on 25 Sep 09
     
    David Tal contributer to Excalibur exams what is the creative economy. Mention of MaRS being a fantastic first step in integrating the city's creative talents in technology and science. Sept 23, 2009
Assunta Krehl

MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 Series: Week 1 - Techvibes - 0 views

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Entrepreneurship 101

shared by Assunta Krehl on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • MaRS Centre in Toronto runs a free entrepreneurship program from Sept to April called "Entrepreneurship 101" designed to teach those in the local scientific community the ins and outs of getting started with a business. Over the course of the program they cover topics ranging from how to write a business plan to protecting your intellectual property and get various prominent speakers to share their experiences as well. Classes are held 5:30pm to 6:30pm on Wednesdays, at the MaRS Centre (located in downtown Toronto). If you are in town, this is a great opportunity to learn. It is also completely free to attend - all you gotta do is sign up and show up and by the end of it, you'd be fairly well acquainted with the tools and knowledge you need to start your own hi-tech business, which is what the government and the folks behind MaRS Center want at the end of the day. MaRS is also making available full recordings of each of its classes online, which Techvibes would be posting on a weekly basis so you can still learn from the program if distance is an issue.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Oct 09
     
    MaRS Centre in Toronto runs a free entrepreneurship program from Sept to April called "Entrepreneurship 101" every Wednesday from 5:30-6:30pm. MaRS is also making available full recordings of each of its classes online, which Techvibes would be posting on a weekly basis so you can still learn from the program if distance is an issue. Oct 13, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Changing Colours - BizBash - 0 views

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MaRS Italian Trade Commisson Toronto International Film Festival

shared by Assunta Krehl on 18 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Film Italia and the Italian Trade Commission's annual TIFF party took on a  chameleon theme set at the MaRS Discovery Centre.
  • The lower-key festival event, held at the MaRS Discovery District, attracted more than 400 people and took on a chameleon theme and slogan: "Try on the colours of Italian cinema."
  • “We try every year to shock people and to be a novelty,” said Italian trade commissioner Paolo Ponti of the party, which he planned in collaboration with Graham. Ponti said MaRS was chosen as a venue this year because of its melding of old and new and its representation of innovation. (The centre is known for leadership in science and business research.)
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  • The Italian Trade Commission chose MaRS as a venue for this year's TIFF party to represent innovation.
  • Rentals, Venue MaRS Discovery District
  • Assunta Krehl on 18 Sep 09
     
    The Italian Trade Commission's Annual TIFF party was held at the MaRS Centre. More than 400 people attended the event. Sept 18, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Startup bets on zebra fish in bid to speed drug testing - 0 views

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InDanio Therapeutics

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  • Assunta Krehl on 05 Aug 09
     
    InDanio, a drug-discovery company based in Toronto's MaRS Discovery District, focuses on nuclear receptors, a class of proteins that are related to some of the most \ndevastating and prevalent diseases on the planet, including immune disorders, obesity, diabetes and most cancers.
  • Assunta Krehl on 05 Aug 09
     
    InDanio, a drug-discovery company based in Toronto's MaRS Discovery District, focuses on nuclear receptors, a class of proteins that are related to some of the most devastating and prevalent diseases on the planet, including immune disorders, obesity, diabetes and most cancers. devastating and prevalent diseases on the planet, including immune disorders, obesity, diabetes and most cancers.
Assunta Krehl

TheStar.com | Business | Researching and developing ways to save Canada's R&D - 0 views

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globalization Perimeter Institute

shared by Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • We have an infrastructure of researchers, universities and independent research institutes such as the new Perimeter Institute in Waterloo and MaRS in Toronto that are dedicated to "pure" or basic research, and applied research that translates into world-class goods and services.
  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Canada pursuing global leadership in R&D. Mention of the Perimeter Institute of in Waterloo and at MaRS dedicated to researc and applied research that translates into world-class goods and services.
Sarah Hickman

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and ... - 0 views

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creativity economy the*martin*prosperity*institute

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  • Sarah Hickman on 14 Aug 09
     
    The Rise of the Creative Class gives a provocative new way to think about why people live as they do today--and where they might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Florida traces the growing role of creativity in the economy.
Cathy Bogaart

www.newbiologyventures.com - New Biology Ventures - 0 views

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finance mars funds venturecapital biotechnology venture

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 02 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • New Biology Ventures is a life-sciences focused venture capital incubator.   We invest in early stage opportunities through the creation and maturation of start-up companies that focus on the development and commercialization of therapeutic biopharmaceuticals. We change the economics of drug development through our unique combination of expertise in finance and structuring companies along with the capability to efficiently and effectively commercialize drugs.  
  • Cathy Bogaart on 02 Apr 09
     
    New Biology Ventures is a life-sciences focused venture capital incubator. They invest in early stage opportunities through the creation and maturation of start-up companies that focus on the development and commercialization of therapeutic biopharmaceuticals. They change the economics of drug development through their unique combination of expertise in finance and structuring companies along with the capability to efficiently and effectively commercialize drugs.
Tim T

GOP's Brown grabs lead in Massachusetts Senate returns - CNN.com - 0 views

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shared by Tim T on 20 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
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  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • cnnRelatedTopicKeys.push('Martha_Coakley'); Martha Coakley cnnRelatedTopicKeys.push('Scott_Brown'); Scott Brown cnnRelatedTopicKeys.push('Edward_M_Kennedy'); Edward M. Kennedy cnnRelatedTopicKeys.push('Health_Care_Reform'); Health Care Reform The latest poll, however, showed Brown leading Coakley by 7 points, 52 to 45 percent. The American Research Group survey, taken Friday through Sunday, had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. No polls released in the past few days showed Coakley ahead. In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown. McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they got pre-marked ballots. The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said. Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the "disturbing incidents" raised questions about the integrity of the election. In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team. "Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign," Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement. Obama has been both "surprised and frustrated" by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday. Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail over the past three days in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say has been hampered by complacency and missteps.
  • Tim T on 20 Jan 10
     
    Complacency put the U.S. health bill at risk
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Science-class dropout starts world-beating website for researchers - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

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clients entrepreneurship women lifesciences

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 19 Nov 12
     
    How did a woman who dropped science in high school come to develop and run one of the world's top scientific websites?
Assunta Krehl

Recap: Startup Drinks & Entrepreneurship 101 Life Sciences & Healthcare - lidiasworld -... - 1 views

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Life Sciences Imaging Visual Sonics events entrepreneurship 101

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  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Apr 12
     
    LidiasWorld blogs about the Entrepreneurship 101 class she and her partner attended at MaRS with guest speaker Dr. Stuart Foster, the founder of VisualSonics, spoke mainly about the challenges of being a science tech specific startup.
Assunta Krehl

Impact investing growing but more effort needed: report - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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Social finance Canadian Task Force on Social Finance Board Members Ilse Treurnicht

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  • Assunta Krehl on 22 Dec 11
     
    Tara Perkins, Globe and Mail reporter states "The Canadian Task Force on Social Finance says there is evidence that impact investing is growing as an asset class in this country.... more effort is require to make progress though." Ilse Treurnicht, the CEO of MaRS Discovery District is a member of the Task Force.
Cathy Bogaart

The Path to Prosperity - Creative Class - 0 views

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mars Innovation creativity economy

shared by Cathy Bogaart on 27 Feb 09 - Cached
  • How do we create the climate for innovation that will lead to new industries and jobs based on new goods and services we can sell the rest of the world?
  • We are not just calling for more creative class jobs, but for increasing the creativity content of all jobs - service as well as manufacturing and agriculture too
  • 3Ts of economic development. Technology is the first T
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  • wo other Ts - talent as Romer’s work points out and tolerance - or openness to new people and new ideas.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 27 Feb 09
     
    The Martin Prosperity institute believes that an innovation strategy has to be tied to creativity and place and the ecosystem ("city"). Here they critique a blog by David Crane which critiques the recent MPI report.
Assunta Krehl

Canadian Incubation Center Brings Five Cleantech Startups To Boston Forum - CleanTechBrief - 0 views

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cleantech Tom Rand Cleantech Forum XXIII advisors

shared by Assunta Krehl on 14 Sep 09 - Cached
  • MaRS, a Toronto-based, not-for-profit incubation center, is leading a delegation of five cleantech ventures at this week’s Cleantech Forum XXIII in Boston. The companies – all clients of MaRS advisory services – will showcase their products for the cleantech CEOs, investors, scientists and policy makers attending the east coast forum. “While cleantech is a relatively new sector for MaRS advisory services, it is fast catching up with our other core strengths in information technologies and life sciences,” said Tom Rand, a cleantech entrepreneur, author and investor who leads MaRS’ cleantech practice. “MaRS is establishing itself as a major deal-flow engine in the cleantech sector, with an emphasis on early-stage companies.”
  • Alternative Fuels
  • Nimtech
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  • Real Tech
  • Skymeter
  • Vicicog
  • MaRS Discovery District is a large scale, mission-driven innovation center focused on building Canada’s next generation of technology companies.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Sep 09
     
    MaRS is leading a delegation of five cleantech ventures at this week's (Sept 8 o 10) Cleantech Forum XXIII in Boston. The presenting companies from MaRS are: Alternative Fuels (deriving energy from waste), Nimtech (eco-friendly chemical process control), Real Tech (organic water testing), Skymeter (pay-as-you-drive GPS metering) and Vicicog (efficient wind turbine transmission systems). Sept 11, 2009
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Sep 09
     
    MaRS is leading a delegation of five cleantech ventures at this week's (Sept 8 o 10) Cleantech Forum XXIII in Boston. The presenting companies from MaRS are: Alternative Fuels (deriving energy from waste), Nimtech (eco-friendly chemical process control), Real Tech (organic water testing), Skymeter (pay-as-you-drive GPS metering) and Vicicog (efficient wind turbine transmission systems). Sept 11, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Building a Successful Biotech Incubator - 0 views

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entrepreneurs mars education raising capital

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  • MaRS aggregates the discovery pipelines of its member institutions, which include three universities, 10 academic teaching hospitals, and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.
  • MaRS is another good example. Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, the MaRS facility is less than a mile from five major teaching hospitals, the Ontario legislature, and the University of Toronto. More than two dozen research institutes and Toronto’s financial district are also nearby.
  • Consequently, MaRS is a vertical incubator, with a wide variety of companies and stages of development. That mix helps companies better understand the conditions that foster growth. MaRS is home to more than 65 organizations, including The Hospital for Sick Children, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Merck Frosst Canada, the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Celtic House Venture Partners, AIM Therapeutics, and AstraZeneca Canada.
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  • “Collaboration is the essence of the new economy,” insists Ross Wallace, director of strategic partnerships at MaRS. “There’s a new focus on the power of institutions to generate intellectual property and ideas, and then build around them.”
  • MaRS has a virtual education program dubbed “Entrepreneurship 101.” One February class features budgeting, another agrifood innovation. The classes are available at no cost, and anyone can register. The program also includes blogs and discussion groups such as the drug development and cancer targets groups. So far, MaRS has relied on viral marketing to get the word out.
  • To provide that expertise, MaRS developed the MaRS Venture Group. This team of experienced investors, entrepreneurs, technology experts, and advisors works with companies to help them bridge the gap between entrepreneurial start-up and experienced growth company. The Venture Group provides market intelligence as well  as advisory services such as strategic planning, partnership and alliance building, intellectual property management, marketing and communications, sales strategy, channel development, financing, and human resource development. It works with groups outside the MaRS orbit, too.
  • Assunta Krehl on 31 Jul 09
     
    To have a successful biotech initiative proximity to academic hubs and capital remains a crucial factor in hatching a thriving cluster. MaRS Discovery District is a good example of a vertical incubator and offers many services to help entrepreneurs at different stages.
Sarah Hickman

The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA: Amazon.c... - 0 views

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health*care*&*life*sciences genetics biology

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  • Sarah Hickman on 10 Aug 09
     
    By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries. With humility unspoiled by false modesty, Watson relates his and Crick's desperate efforts to beat Linus Pauling to the Holy Grail of life sciences, the identification of the basic building block of life. Never has a scientist been so truthful in capturing in words the flavor of his work.
Assunta Krehl

Interesting Silicon Valley Investment Boot Camp - Startup Ottawa - 0 views

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MaRS investors

shared by Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Canadian Regional Boot Camp for Technology Start-Ups featuring Silicon Valley experts and investors March 16-20, 2009
  • Thursday, March 19, MaRS, Toronto
  • first round of Canadian Regional Boot Camps will include stops in the following ICT cluster regions:
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Canadian Regional Boot Camp for Technology Start-Ups featuring Silicon Valley experts and investors is happening March 16-20, 2009. On March 19 the first round of Canadian Regional Boot Camps will stop at MaRS.
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Canadian Regional Boot Camp for Technology Start-Ups featuring Silicon Valley experts and investors is happening March 16-20, 2009. On March 19 the first round of Canadian Regional Boot Camps will stop at MaRS. March 3, 2009
  • Cathy Bogaart on 27 Nov 09
     
    I think this link is supposed to point to http://www.startupottawa.com/?p=896
George Botos

FDA action may rain on iPhone's medical imaging parade - 0 views

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life-science imaging iPhone

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  • George Botos on 23 Mar 10
     
    Interest is booming in the use of mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone for image viewing applications. But that excitement may be dampened somewhat with a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision to classify an iPhone image viewing application as a class III device requiring premarket approval.
Cathy Bogaart

Who Should you Hire at a Startup? - 2 views

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entrepreneurship HR employees

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 30 Oct 09
     
    From Mark Suster, Entrepreneur turned VC, in his blog, "Both Sides of the Table" on October 22, 2009. His advice? Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class
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