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May 15, 2012 \| Vol. 4, Issue 18

FEATURE

A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College

May 13, 2012 | New York Times

With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts from for-profit colleges or graduate students who owe on many years of education, some of the overextended debtors in years past. Now nearly everyone pursuing a bachelor’s degree is borrowing. As prices soar, a college degree statistically remains a good lifetime investment, but it often comes with an unprecedented financial burden.

Facebook Plans to Raise IPO Price Range

May 15, 2012 | Washington Post

Facebook plans to raise the price range for its initial public offering to $34 to $38 a share, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The new range, above the previous range of $28 to $35 a share, may be announced in a regulatory filing today. Facebook, already planning the largest-ever Internet-company IPO, would raise as much as $12.8 billion and seek a valuation of as high as $104.2 billion,

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The Education of Mark Zuckerberg

What Facebook IPO Says About Venture Capital

Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

May 11, 2012 | Harvard Business Review

In the recent HBR article "The Crowdfunding Road to Hell," Daniel Isenberg argues persuasively that crowdfunding — specifically equity crowdfunding — cannot work. As an entrepreneur, angel investor, VC, philanthropist, and CEO with 40 years' experience, I cannot agree.

Kauffman: Institutional Limited Partners Blamed for Poor Venture Capital Returns

May 10, 2012 | Kauffman Foundation

Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high-profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

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Much Ventured, Little Gained

Breaking Down 'Broken' Venture Capital

Institutional Investors Like Venture Capital Again

Help! There’s A Patent On My Idea! What Now?

May 13, 2012 | TechCrunch

“I have a really great idea, but (name of big company or university) has a patent on that. What do I do?” With over 8,000,000 patents issued to date and thousands of new patents issued weekly, chances are good that patents have been issued that are relevant to your business or idea. Knowingly infringing an active patent can lead to disastrous consequences for your business. So what do you do?

Where Are the Jobs? Ask the Patent Trolls

‘Trigger-Happy’ Investors Boost IPO Insurance Through Litigation

Silicon Valley Wrestles with Impact of “Scouts”

Small Business Funding Options: Venture Capital vs. Angel Funding

Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley’s Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet

Missouri Student Angels Earn their Investing Wings

Massachusetts IPOs Don’t Create Many Angel Investors

Pebble Smartwatch Tops Out at $10 Million on Kickstarter

N.C. State Incubator Helps Get Student Ventures Off the Ground

Groupon Revenue Up Nearly 90%, Shares Jump

Hospitals Seek Startups to Cure Tech Ills

The Silver Lining to the Drop in Startups

Executive Assistants in Venture Capital: “The Phone Never Rings”

Next Class of Teachers Enters Changing Profession

Raising a VC Fund in Boston: Hard, and Maybe Getting Harder

Medical-Device Makers Fight Tax

Degree of Separation: Inaccurate Bio Topples Yahoo CEO

A Capital Idea

Rochester's Effort Aims to Advance the Sciences

Bing to Duel Google Using Facebook-Friendly Format

A Circle of Tech: Collect Payout, Do a Start-Up

Solar Installers Offer Deals, Gaining Converts

Austin to Re-examine Incentive Policies for Big Businesses

Locating American Manufacturing: Trends in the Geography of Production

Biotech U: Marrying Academia and Industry in Charlottesville

New York’s Tech Industry Tops U.S. in Growth, Study Finds

States Scramble to Regulate Fracking

Firms Go Outside Michigan to Fill IT Jobs

SEC Halts Trading in 379 Stocks to Cut Shell-Company Fraud

Corn Becoming King in Upper Midwest as Acres Rise in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota

Orangutans at Miami Zoo Use iPads to Communicate

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