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		<title>Notes from a Successful New England Venture Summit &#8211; 2009 Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Sanger</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absventures.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6839324&amp;post=385&amp;subd=absventures&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2009 New England Venture Summit &#8211; Last Day for Online Registration!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Sanger</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absventures.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6839324&amp;post=380&amp;subd=absventures&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qualys CEO on SaaS and Cloud Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Sanger</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absventures.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6839324&amp;post=334&amp;subd=absventures&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is IT Spending Ready to Bounce?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Sanger</dc:creator>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absventures.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6839324&amp;post=302&amp;subd=absventures&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why M&amp;A Will Lead the Way</title>
		<link>http://absventures.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/why-ma-will-lead-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billburgess</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been much discussion over the last several years lamenting the state of the IPO market and the trauma of taking a company public. The prevailing wisdom is that the cost of going public (SarbOx, etc) and the unattractiveness of the market are forcing companies to sell out. It is a sad story but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=absventures.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6839324&amp;post=296&amp;subd=absventures&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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