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Thursday, April 19, 2012
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Madea's Witness Protection Trailer: Tyler Perry Returns
Fresh off his most acclaimed film in Good Deeds, actor-director Tyler Perry and his iconic creation Madea return in his latest project, Madea’s Witness Protection.
The story actually does not follow Madea into Witness Protection, but rather Wall Street banker (Eugene Levy) whose family moves into Madea's neighborhood.
The trailer below gives us a quick glimpse of this new character sitting beside Tyler Perry's on a plane. Madea’s Witness Protection lands in theaters June 29.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Top Holiday Charms That Make Air Tickets To Cairo Sell Fast
Epithets like the ?City of thousand minarets? and ?Mother of all cities? fall short when one starts to describe the essence of Cairo. A modern city steeped deep in history, Cairo is unarguably one of the world's most ecstatic destinations. Nowhere else but Cairo can one find an entrancing ancient parade, tantalizing cuisines, incredible museums, shopping extravaganza and a calendar full of events and festivals!
The city?s most significant crowd pullers like Giza?s mighty pyramids and stately sphinx have caught the world?s fancy for long and still take one?s breath away. No wonder buying air tickets to Cairo remains the dream of every travel bug. Let?s look at some of the glittering gems of Cairo that make airline tickets to Cairo sell like hot cakes.
Pyramid of Giza
Pyramid of Giza remain synonymous with Cairo and indeed Egypt! Pyramids of Giza eclectically cast an incessant spell on the onlookers by the virtue of sheer majesty and statuesqueness.
Coptic Museum
Established in 1908, Coptic Museum is yet another popular attraction in Cairo! The museum houses a rare collection of ancient Coptic remnants like architectural remnants, textiles and ancient manuscripts. The museum remains a must-visit for those buying tickets to Cairo to bask in the glory of Egypt?s glorious past! Besides its enriching exhibits, the awe-inspiring majesty of Coptic Museum is enough to cast an incessant spell on the visitors!
Egyptian Museum
One of the largest museums in Egypt, The Egyptian Museum remains Cairo?s most sought attraction.
Mohammed Ali Mosque
Fondly called the Alabaster Mosque, Mohammed Ali Mosque in the Citadel of Cairo is one of the world?s finest architectural geniuses. The mosque remains a must visit for religious aficionados buying tickets to Cairo. The charm of twin minarets and the central dome flanked by four half-domes housed here make for the most bewitching sight to behold. Visitors taking a trip to this mosque can enjoy breathtaking views across the city to the pyramids of Giza.
Khan el-Khalili
Bustling Khan el-Khalili is perhaps one of the most interesting Egyptian bazaars that lure shoppers to buy air tickets to Egypt! Hedonistically alive with the delightful cacophony, Khan el-Khalili feature the eclectic charm of traditional souks blended with modern glitters. The shops here feature a wide range of interesting items, from junk jewellery to local perfumes, from hand-crafted textiles to fantastic souvenir items! Do well to go on treasure hunt to find the perfect souvenir to decorate your mantelpiece.
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Friday, April 13, 2012
What Would Sequestration Mean for Low-Income DC Families ...
I decided to write about the across-the-board spending cuts the Budget Control Act mandates because I wanted to be sure we all had a common frame of reference when I turned to what we all, I trust, really care about.
How much less would federally-funded programs have to help low-income people?
Easy enough to answer, I thought. After all, the new report from the Coalition on Human Needs includes program-specific tables.
But I was immediately overwhelmed. The primary table lists more than 140 programs that serve what CHN classifies as basic human needs.
For each, we?ve got past and current spending levels, plus two estimates* of how much the program would lose in January 2013, when the first round of sequestration is due.
The range and extend of the losses is overwhelming. Trying to get a handle on them is overwhelming too. This is one thorough report!
So I?ll focus on a subset of the handful of programs that CHN breaks down to state-level impacts ? those that best answer the question my title poses.
WIC
WIC (the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children) has already suffered from a series of cuts.
If Congress resists the urge to take another whack at the program, the District of Columbia would lose close to $1.5 million as its share of the 2013 automatic cut.
Less money at a time when food prices are rising. We might see a waiting list, though mothers can hardly put their children on hold till they can nourish them properly.
LIHEAP
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program has also suffered from federal deficit-reduction fever.
Current funding is about $1.6 billion less than it was in Fiscal Year 2010, not counting the temporary boost LIHEAP got from the Recovery Act. The President?s budget would cut another $452 million.
But say the program got level-funded. The District would then lose somewhat over $1 million in the first round of sequestration.
Some unknown number of eligible households would be literally in the cold ? some homeless, since evictions can follow unmanageable utility bills.
National survey figures suggest that about 41% of the at-risk households would be families with children.
Child Care and Development Block Grant
The Child Care and Development Block Grant has two funding streams ? one so-called entitlement that?s shielded from the across-the-board cuts and one dependent on annual appropriations that isn?t.
If the Fiscal Year 2013 appropriation were the same as what the block grant is getting now, the District would lose $296,000.
May not seem like much, but the program already lacks funds to make affordable high-quality child care available, especially for low-income parents with infants and children with disabilities.
Head Start
Here in the District, as nationwide, Head Start supports a range of services for low-income children and their parents.
If Congress level-funds the program, the District would lose close to $2.8 million in Fiscal Year 2013.
So there goes more money that supports early childhood development ? and gives some low-income parents an alternative to the dauntingly high costs of market-rate child care.
Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Title I of what?s now called No Child Left Behind funds services to help low-income students graduate ?college and career ready.? It?s the single largest source of federal financial support for public school systems.
If Congress approves the same amount the program is getting now, the District would initially lose well over $4.6 million.
As the DC Fiscal Policy Institute tells us, Mayor Gray?s proposed budget will mean a cost crunch for at least some schools ? and no extra funding for those with high student poverty rates.
The Title I cut would, of course, increase the cost-crunch ? and undermine urgently-needed efforts to prepare low-income youth for the demands of our high-education/high-skills job market.
IDEA Grants
Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the federal government provides three sets of grants to help states meet their legal obligations for educating children with disabilities.
Again assuming level-funding, the District would lose more than $1.7 million from the cut in the largest grant program. Total loss would be larger, of course.
As you may know, the District?s budget has long been stressed by the costs of providing the required ?free and appropriate? education to children with disabilities.
The Mayor aims to bring more of these children into the regular public school system ? better for them as well as for the bottom line, if the schools get enough funding to meet the children?s needs.
The partial loss of federal grant funds would presumably require the District to invest more local dollars in special education services ? more, at least, than it would otherwise have to.
I shudder to think where those dollars would come from.
* Analysts can only ballpark funding losses because the across-the-board cuts would be based on Fiscal Year 2013 appropriations. And Congress has only just started working on these.
CHN provides two sets of estimates based on current appropriations. One applies a percent estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. The other uses a higher percent estimate from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
CBPP explains ? convincingly to me ? that CBO oversimplified its Fiscal Year 2013 estimates to make them consistent with out-year estimates. So I?m reporting cuts estimated with the Center?s percent.
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Sherri Shepherd?s Emotional DWTS Elimination (Video)
Sherri Shepherd was sent packing last night on Dancing With The Stars! Tears were flowing as the fan favorite ended her time in the ballroom. You can see her emotional good-bye right here, trust me though you are going to need some tissues. I was shocked when I learned that Sherri and her partner Val Chmerkovskiy had not only landed in the bottom two but that they were the team eliminated. I was not expecting them to go, nor was I expecting The View co-host to get so emotional. Although Shepherd was crying over her having to leave the ballroom she gave a great speech and left fans with some words of wisedom. ???To every person out there that the thing that scares you most, run toward it, because it???s so amazing on the other side.??? As I said above I was shocked when Shepherd was the one eliminated last night. I mean she has been a fan favorite from the get go and she was doing a bang up job on the dances too. I think she got the crap end of the deal and that Roshon Fegan should have been gone before Sherri. Nothing against the Disney star [...]
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Pitfalls of Investing in Your Employer | weareallmukmuks.com ...
Edited by CRISTINA LOUROSA-RICARDO
There are plenty of stupid investments you can make in this world. Stock in Pets.com and Washington Mutual didn?t work out so well. Nor did those Las Vegas condos. Some of the social media and Web 2.0 stocks flying high on Wall Street will probably follow suit.
But the most foolish investment of all may be right in front of you. And there?s a worrying chance you?re buying it.
The investment? Stock in your own employer.
According to data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, only about 40% of employees participate in 401(k) plans that even offer the company?s stock as an option. Those employees are still investing from 16% to 19% of their plan portfolios, on average, in their employer?s stock. At the same time, they have been shrinking their overall equity exposure dramatically.
One dollar in your employer for every two dollars spread across all the other companies out there? It makes no sense.
First, you already have a big investment in your employer. You work there. If you are hoping to work there for some time, it may well be the biggest investment in your portfolio.
The value of an investment comes from its cash flow. Let?s say you?re hoping to earn a modest $45,000 a year for the next 10 years. An annuity producing that series of cash flows might cost you about $380,000. For 20 years: nearly $600,000.
No, a job and an annuity aren?t identical. But the analogy is useful. Your cash flow already gives you a huge stake in the company. Do you need to double down?
Legions of workers did just that and became two-time losers. Their employer collapsed. They lost their incomes and their savings at the same time. Think of Enron. Think of WorldCom. Think of all those who worked at banks that collapsed in 2008. Bank of America and Citigroup avoided bankruptcy, but their stocks fell to pennies on the dollar.
The second problem with investing in your own employer?s stock? It?s based on the theory that you?ll benefit from the company?s improved performance and that you?ll have incentive to contribute. You?ll be a stockholder as well as an employee, and you?ll think like one. Employees buying company stock think they will have some influence over how it does.
Good luck with that.
The theory is fine if you work for yourself, or in a small partnership. But in a company of 500 or 1,000? No matter how hard you work, you won?t have any material effect on the share price. The only people who can do that are the senior executives.
Speaking of whom: Many people who buy company stock think they?re following safely in the footsteps of top executives. But this, too, is an illusion. Even if the CEO holds $10 million in company stock, so what? His financial situation is totally different from yours. He may hold $50 million in other investments. If he gets canned, he may have a golden parachute and a network of golden handshakes to fall back on.
And are CEOs really investing in the company? Most just get free stock and options?which they then sell.
?Brett Arends, SmartMoney Magazine
Eye on Overdraft Fees
Bank overdraft fees are the latest target of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which said last week that it would demand data from the biggest financial institutions and look at ways to make the fees on checking-account statements easier to understand.
This overdraft-fee campaign could eventually help consumers avoid unexpected charges.
The bureau said it will gather data ?from several of the largest banks in the country to evaluate how those institutions? overdraft policies affect consumers,? without specifying which banks were asked to supply data.
The American Bankers Association has said most bank customers don?t pay overdraft fees and that customers can avoid the charges by keeping extra money in their accounts or by linking checking accounts to savings accounts.
The bureau, however, said it?s concerned some banks may be charging and calculating the fees in a way that is misleading or confusing for consumers and that the banks aren?t consistently following previously outlined ?best practices.?
?Maya Jackson Randall, Dow Jones Newswires
Bypass the 10% Penalty
Thinking about raiding your retirement funds? There are ways to do so without triggering the dreaded 10% penalty on early withdrawals for people under the age of 59?.
If you leave a company in the year in which you turn 55 or older, you can take penalty-free withdrawals from a 401(k) plan. (The distribution would be taxable, of course, but the 10% penalty would not apply.)
There also are ways to avoid a 10% penalty with an IRA.
IRA owners can take so-called 72 (t) withdrawals. Under their rules, you can start taking these withdrawals at any age. But once you start, you must continue for either five years or until you reach age 59??whichever is longer. (You can do it with a 401(k) as well, but you must have left the company first.) Moreover, because the payments are calculated according to actuarial tables, you won?t be able to adjust the amounts.
IRA owners who are unemployed can take distributions from a SEP, Simple, Roth or traditional IRA to pay health-insurance premiums for themselves, a spouse and/or dependents. You have to have received unemployment compensation for at least 12 consecutive weeks among other qualifications, says Ed Slott, an IRA expert in Rockville Centre, N.Y.
?Anne Tergesen, Encore Blog, SmartMoney.com
Tooth Inflation
How sweet it isn?t.
The average gift from the Tooth Fairy dropped to $2.10 last year, down 42 cents from $2.52 in 2010, according to no less an authority than the Original Tooth Fairy Poll, which is sponsored by Delta Dental Plans Association.
?But the good news,? their PR folks hasten to add, ?is she?s still visiting nearly 90% of homes throughout the United States.?
Some other data points:
- The most common amount left under the pillow by the Tooth Fairy is $1.
- Most children find more money under the pillow for their first lost baby tooth.
?Total Return Blog, WSJ.com?The Aggregator, edited by Cristina Lourosa-Ricardo, features news and commentary from The Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones publications. Email: cristina.lourosa@wsj.com
Corrections & Amplifications
About 40% of workers were members of plans that offered company stock as an option, according to data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. An earlier version misstated that about 40% of 401(k) plans offered company stock as an investment option.
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'Lion King' is Broadway's all-time box office king
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, the Minskoff Theatre and the marquee for "The Lion King" are seen in New York. Box office revenues show that "The Lion King" has recently swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera." (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, the Minskoff Theatre and the marquee for "The Lion King" are seen in New York. Box office revenues show that "The Lion King" has recently swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera." (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, the Majestic Theatre and the marquee for "The Phantom of the Opera" are seen in New York. Box office revenues show that "The Lion King" has recently swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera." (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Very quietly, almost stealthily, a new king has been inaugurated on Broadway.
Revenue figures indicate that "The Lion King" has swiped the title of Broadway's all-time highest grossing show from "The Phantom of the Opera."
As of Monday, the cumulative gross for "The Lion King" was $853,846,062. Its chandelier-swinging musical's cumulative total was $853,122,847.
What makes the achievement all the more remarkable is that "The Lion King" grabbed the title despite "Phantom" having almost a full 10 years' head start.
The upstart's victory is due in large part to its higher average ticket prices and a slightly larger theater.
To be sure, "Phantom," now in its 24th year, is still the longest-running show in Broadway history. But the Broadway box office crown has been passed to a new pup.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
RiechesBaird Named Top Branding Agency By BtoB Magazine ...
RiechesBaird has been named one of the nation?s top BtoB branding agencies by BtoB Magazine for the 11th consecutive year.
BtoB Magazine?s annual listing of the top agencies in the United States features a select group of leading national BtoB agencies, based on innovative online marketing campaigns, percentage of business that is BtoB, new client wins, effective use of new technologies, overall revenue growth and other criteria.
?Being recognized as one of the nation?s top corporate branding agencies by BtoB Magazine for the 11th consecutive year is a testimony to our entire RiechesBaird team?s determination and dedication to create the world?s most successful BtoB brands year after year,? said Ryan Rieches, co-founder and CEO of RiechesBaird.? ?Our corporate branding methodology embraces business strategy to enhance business performance, and to have that recognized yet again by BtoB Magazine is gratifying.?
?To continually earn this position as one of the top BtoB agencies in the country demonstrates our unyielding commitment to aligning brand strategy with business strategy, so our clients can compete better and grow market share,? said Ray Baird, co-founder and president of RiechesBaird.? ?Our vision is to create the world?s most successful brands, and our mission is to find greatness and promote it fearlessly.?
RiechesBaird specializes in building the value of BtoB brands and has worked with such brands as American Airlines Cargo, Toyota, Sharp and Linksys, a division of Cisco.
In honoring RiechesBaird, BtoB Magazine noted that over the past year RiechesBaird added new clients including Huawei Technologies USA, Hitachi Consulting and ABM Industries, while continuing to work with existing key clients including American Airlines Cargo and Epicore Software. The magazine highlighted a trio of online campaigns created and implemented by RiechesBaird, including ?Did You Know?? for American Airlines Cargo, ?Promise of the Future? for Huawei Technologies USA, and ?Accelerating Nonprofit Success? for OneOC.? The magazine also recognized that RiechesBaird launched BrandingBusiness.com last year, an industry thought-leadership portal dedicated to brand strategy, brand development and brand engagement.
??Branding Business? is not merely a tag line or ?shorthand? for our BtoB expertise,? added Rieches.? ?BrandingBusiness.com is a natural extension of our work and a valuable place for businesses to discover real-world insights that help drive business forward and improve market share.?
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NFL unveils new uniforms for all 32 teams
New York Giants' Victor Cruz smiles while surrounded by reporters during a presentation in New York, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The NFL and Nike showed off the new gear in grand style with a gridiron-themed fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New York Giants' Victor Cruz smiles while surrounded by reporters during a presentation in New York, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The NFL and Nike showed off the new gear in grand style with a gridiron-themed fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NFL players stand in their new uniforms during a presentation in New York, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The league and Nike showed off the new look in grand style with a gridiron-styled fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
New NFL uniforms are displayed on mannequins during a presentation in New York, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The NFL and Nike showed off the new look in grand style with a gridiron-styled fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NFL uniforms are displayed during a presentation in New York, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The league and Nike showed off the new look in grand style Tuesday with a gridiron-styled fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Seattle Seahawks' Kam Chancellor shows off the new design for gloves during a presentation in New York, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The NFL and Nike showed off the new look in grand style with a gridiron-styled fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) ? For fans worried that Nike was going to give their favorite NFL team's uniform an extreme makeover, full-blown Oregon style, no need to fret.
Ben Roethlisberger still looked very much like a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nobody would have mistaken Jermichael Finley for anything but a Green Bay Packer. And the Browns' jersey wore by Joe Haden was still brown.
Going for a slightly sleeker but very familiar look, the NFL unveiled its new uniforms Tuesday. Nike, the league's latest apparel maker, stayed away from the wildly experimental designs it uses with the University of Oregon, get-ups that sometimes make it hard to identify the Ducks.
"You look good, you play good," said Finley, Green Bay's star tight end. "Hopefully that kicks into effect this season."
Nike put on a gridiron-themed fashion show at a Brooklyn film studio, with a player from each of the 32 franchises modeling his team's new threads.
No, Big Ben, Ndamukong Suh and Brian Urlacher didn't walk the runway.
Instead, after a handful of Nike big wigs worked their way through half-hour presentation that could have been dubbed "The Making of the Uniforms," the players walked out onto an artificial turf-covered mini-field, suited up from shoes to shoulder pads and lined up in four rows. After the house lights went up, their helmets went on.
There were no surprises.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said the goal of the redesign was to combine "tradition with innovation."
"Some teams will lean more toward the traditions," Goodell said. "But you can see here you can put innovation into the uniform without changing the look, necessarily, about it."
In college football, flashy uniforms, with non-traditional colors and patterns are all the rage these days. Oregon, the alma mater of Nike founder Phil Knight, has made the cutting-edge ? some would say over-the-edge ? look its calling card. Nike outfits dozens of major college football teams and while few have gone all-in the way Oregon does, many are at least dabbling in funky gear.
Those gloves that create a school's logo when a player hold his hands together, palms out, and which have popped up on campuses from Alabama to Notre Dame, will now be on display at every NFL game. And, of course, available in stores ? along with all kinds of new team gear from jackets to hoodies to T-shirts.
But only the Seattle Seahawks, who took the unveiling of the uniform as an opportunity to start a rebranding campaign for the franchise, made significant alterations to their uniforms, adding some neon green trim down the sides of the pants and numbers
"I like the fact that there are teams that are pretty much staying more in line with where they've been and there's other teams that are starting to push a little bit more," said Nike CEO and President Mark Parker. "We see that happen at the college level perhaps even more aggressively, but I think you'll see the NFL evolving and Nike being an exciting partner in actually helping make that happen."
The Seattle uniforms, modeled by defensive back Kam Chancellor, were definitely a winner among the other players.
"Seattle has the hottest uniform right now," Saints running back Pierre Thomas said. "So I'm a little jealous. But I still love my all black. I think it looks nice."
Aside from a sharp look, Todd Van Horne, Nike's creative director for football and baseball, said the players wanted the uniforms to be as light as possible.
"They don't want anything weighing them down. They want to be faster," he said.
The second-most important quality was fit. "They want it to stretch and move with them," he said.
The verdict?
"It clings to your body so nobody can hold you," Finley said. "It's a real nice advantage. Because you get a lot of grabbing on the field."
Browns defensive back and former Florida Gator Haden said: "They feel like a little better edition of my Florida jersey. More ventilation in them to keep you cooler."
But they still look like the uniforms Brian Sipe and Bernie Kosar used to wear for Cleveland back in the 1980s and '90s.
"The Browns, it's all about traditions," Haden said. "A lot of the Browns fans they didn't want us to change up. They wanted us to feel better in the uniforms and to fit better and all that, but about the look, they really didn't want you to change it up at all."
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UK Finance via Venture Capitalists | Share Tutorial Programing
For startups along with new companies inside life science biomedical corporations there is a venture capital agency called Abingworth. They specialize in funding biomedical companies. That they understand the biomedical industry certainly and have experience in funding such startups. They need to maintain a close romantic relationship with the management of the particular startup to make them prosperous. You can approach Abingworth if you are looking for UK finance for biomedical startups or even new companies in this field. They finance companies that develop products and also which work on specific ailment parts.
Finance in Great britain is provided by Venture Catalyst firms only if they?re interested in the area of business that they are funding. The opportunity of commercial success really should be prominent. Most of the firms look at the management that?s running the company. The principle criteria for them really should be a strong management as well as the idea of business must be novel. You small business could also be the current technology but they look at precisely how different you are going to undertake it. Your approach really needs to be different to be successful commercial. Some of the UK money firms also aid you in getting the right management team in place.
There are few venture capital firms that account the early stage technologies in UK. Money for such brand-new start ups are difficult to get if you are not getting close the right kind of opportunity capitalist firm. ?Pond Venture Partners? is such company that funds the early level start ups. If you think you business is not necessarily growing then you have to be able to approach companies like this in UK with regard to finance. They have great experience in funding the technology startups and they understand the difficulties that the start out ups face. They can help you write your organization plan and build ones team if you have the correct type of idea that would just click globally. If your enterprise has the potential to produce an impact globally then you can definitely approach Pond endeavor partners right away intended for finance in UK.
To get your financing you may not know which venture capital firm in order to approach. This is the scenario for most of the start off ups. They may not know who will provide them finance within UK. Under this sort of circumstances it is better to be able to approach a Venture Catalyst who will make it easier to be in touch using the right kind of venture capitalist. Businesses like Sturgeon Ventures provide such venture catalyst solutions. They help you to speak to the right kind of VC companies and they also help you in the course of your business. They do not supply you with the necessary capital but they also help you to link with individuals who might be interested to advance your venture.
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