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		<title>Innovation Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the upcoming Presidential election, the debate will begin again on comprehensive immigration reform. Much of that debate will likely center on illegal immigration. But for those of us in the startup/venture world, it is the immigration policies related to skilled foreign nationals where the focus is most needed. The current rules and regulations that govern [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Notes from a Successful New England Venture Summit &#8211; 2009 Edition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Sanger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think one would have that yesterday&#8217;s New England Venture Summit in Dedham was one of the more successful east coast venture events of 2009. Kudos to Joe Benjamin and his team at YoungStartup Ventures for producing a conference which had great energy. Judging by the estimated attendance at the door, the event also appeared to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>2009 New England Venture Summit &#8211; Last Day for Online Registration!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Sanger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just wanted to remind everyone that today is the last day to register online for this year&#8217;s edition of the New England Venture Summit, being held next Tuesday, December 8 at the Hilton Boston-Dedham.  With the Boston region&#8217;s resilient innovation community showing clear signs of bouncing back, it should be an exciting event. I understand that places [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Sanger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Philippe Courtot, CEO of Qualys, recently penned a nice piece on SaaS and cloud computing for IT Advisor, the official journal of the UK&#8217;s National Computing Centre. IT Advisor is not widely distributed in the States, so I thought I&#8217;d give it a mention here. As an investor in Qualys, I may be biased. But [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is IT Spending Ready to Bounce?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Sanger]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the Dow Jones PEA Conference a couple weeks ago, Jim Breyer gave an interview in which he questioned the short-term optimism that has swept up many observers of the current economic recovery. But Jim also noted that, over the longer term, pent up demand will lead to a surge in IT infrastructure spending, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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