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65% of Venture Capital-backed deals fail to return investment, and only 4% make substantial returns

Idea to Value

However, new data from Correlation Ventures shows just how risky investing in new companies can be. The chart above shows the financial outcomes for 21,640 different financing deals between 2004 and 2013 (note that these were the total number of deals, not individual companies).

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Venture Capital in Scandinavia

Innovation 360

It is part of Angel Investment Network Ltd, a London-based company that was founded in 2004 having 30 networks all over the world. I asked the founder, Mike Lebus, for some data to explore the different perspective on entrepreneurship and investment between UK and Scandinavia. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+.

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Venture Capital in Scandinavia

Innovation 360

It is part of Angel Investment Network Ltd, a London-based company that was founded in 2004 having 30 networks all over the world. I asked the founder, Mike Lebus, for some data to explore the different perspective on entrepreneurship and investment between UK and Scandinavia.

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The 5 Ways Chairman Lampert Destroyed Sears’ Value

Adam Hartung

The brand is now so tarnished that Sears Holdings is writing down the value of the Sears name by another $200million – reducing intangible value from the $4B at origination in 2004 to under $2B. In 2004 Sears had a LOT of assets. Additionally, Sears had great brands in 2004. This has been quite the fall for Sears.

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Origin Story of The first CT scan (Republished from The Conversation

Rmukesh Gupta

hours processing the data on an EMI mainframe computer and capturing the image with a Polaroid camera before racing back to the hospital. He continued to putter around with inventions until his final days in 2004, when he died at 84. The team installed a full-sized scanner at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in London , and on Oct.

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Innovation – Is it all just a game of Jeopardy?

Wazoku

In 2004, researchers chose Jeopardy! billion gigabytes of data generated each day. If you are not aware of the history of IBM Watson, here is the quick backstory. In 1997 the IBM supercomputer, Deep Blue, famously defeated the then world chess champion, Garry Kasparov. as its next conquest and began developing Watson in 2005.

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Innovate or Die: Open Innovation and 4 Key Measures to Stay Alive

Innovation Walk

Companies commonly used to assume the best route to innovation was to control processes by keeping all data and knowledge internally and hiring the best employees. in 2004 to 8.3% This constant and rapid state of change is creating new and big challenges… but even bigger opportunities.