This past year was good. We have many opportunities. The classic VC model is back and a good portion of venture backed companies will not survive. Not surviving and failure are two different things completely. So let s support entrepreneurs who have failed but are committed to their causes.
Serial entrepreneurs can be a powerful catalysts.
But summers in Chicago are great and the lake is great for outdoor activities which entrepreneurs tend to love. Chicago has its share of Venture Funds but Seed Capital is the key ingredient and organizations like Prairie Angels will fuel this cause in 2001. There is evidence of a relationship between economic growth periods and birth rates. If this relationship is in fact true then the current economic boom has several years left. Although the growth may slow down.