Word: newman
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...double major in neuroscience and computer science would keep most college kids pretty busy. But when Yale junior Joshua Newman, 20, scampered across campus this spring, he wasn't thinking too much about finals. He was more concerned with raising $10 million by the fall--and then giving it away. A native of (where else?) Palo Alto, Calif., Newman just happens to be a budding venture capitalist, one of the early-stage investors who fund high-tech ventures before they go public, in exchange for a potentially lucrative stake. His fledgling fund, Paradigm Blue, plans to give about...
...Newman has already raised some $8 million. Until recently it wasn't too hard, even for an undergraduate, to line up donations. As long as tech stocks were pushing the NASDAQ index to record highs, VCs could take scores of seedling companies public before they had time to fail, and walk away with triple-digit gains. The recent market downturn doesn't seem to faze Newman. "We're taking a long-term view," he says, like a Silicon Valley...
...fall of Saigon. Afterward she asked me where I was from. When I said America, she stared into my eyes and said, "Welcome back." She explained that it was because of us Americans that she is able to have her small business selling cards. Freedom will prevail. BILL NEWMAN Singapore...
Turncoat Crimson sportswriter and Council representative Dan Fernandez began a bench-clearing brawl after leaning over the plate to take a Dave Newman offering...
...Newman, who helped author that document, said if Brandeis wins, the decision "will have an onerous and chilling effect on college students rights...