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The SEC’s Crowdfunding Conundrum
September 7, 2012 | Techonomy
When President Obama signed the JOBS Act last April, one of the most controversial and potentially far-reaching provisions was giving startups the ability to raise money through crowdfunding. The JOBS Act will open that up to anybody as soon as the SEC hammers out the rules. The SEC must protect investors without prematurely cutting off this new source of capital for startups.
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Entrepreneurs are Taking Kickstarter More Seriously; VCs Should, Too
September 7, 2012 | peHUB
You don’t often hear venture capitalists talking about the world’s biggest crowd-funding site, Kickstarter. But maybe they should. While the three-year-old platform has long been a way to launch creative projects – albums, art projects, books, documentaries, and performances – more first-time tech entrepreneurs are catching onto its power, and they’re using it to prove market demand for their products.
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Climate Change and the Food Supply
September 7, 2012 | New York Times
Perhaps the biggest single question about climate change is whether people will have enough to eat in coming decades. We have had two huge spikes in global food prices in five years that were driven largely by chaotic weather. And this year we may be in the early stages of a third big jump. Droughts and heat waves have damaged crops in many producing countries this year, including the United States and India.
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'Super Angels'Come Down to Earth
September 6, 2012 | Crain's New York
Angel investor extraordinaire David Rose has more than 80 companies in his portfolio. David Tisch, former managing director of Tech Stars NYC, told a conference audience last year that he had stakes in 51 companies. Brian Cohen, chairman of the New York Angels, has money in dozens of young startups. The three are among a handful of "super angels" operating in New York City for the past few years.
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Universities and Institutions Keep Sprouting Even More Startups
September 7, 2012 | MedCity News
U.S. universities and research institutions earned $2.5 billion from their patented technologies and spun out 671 new startups in fiscal year 2011 — that’s a 21 percent increase in startups from five years ago
New numbers from the Association of University Technology Managers, which released a (PDF) summary of its 2011 Licensing Activity Survey last week
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