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In our own graph, a university accelerator outranks Sequoia
In Osparna's own graph of companies linked by shared investors, the single most connected name isn't a famous venture firm -- it's MIT delta v, MIT's student accelerator, touching 249 distinct companies. Sequoia Capital, by comparison, connects 49.
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Flying cars vs. 140 characters
In the same summer of 2011, two venture capitalists published opposite theses about what their own industry was actually funding. Fifteen...
Why venture capital wasn't always an industry
Two policy decisions, eighteen months apart, turned a boutique activity into an industry.
Nebraska Spent Fifty Years Building Real Agtech Infrastructure — a University Tech-Transfer Office, a Dedicated Accelerator, a Student-Run Venture Fund. Its Own Researchers Just Measured a $45 Million Gap Between What That Should Have Raised and What It Actually Did.
Nebraska built real agtech infrastructure starting in 1973 -- a university research institute, a tech-transfer office, a dedicated accele...
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