I’ll get to my main questions shortly, but you’ve reminded me to send a thank you card to theFrey Foundation, who put up the money for that $2000 seed grant you made a point of mentioning in your letter. Every cent helped pay a portion of the round-trip shipping to get my sculp...
9. Grant Vandevanter: 27, Alamo, CA. Attended Oregon St. University for a year before moving back. Currently works as an electrician and goal is to move to San Francisco to pursue a career as an electrical contractor. Middle of three siblings. Older sister Heather is 29, younger sister ...
Incubatorsare similar to accelerators in that they provide space and shared resources to startups, but usually no or very small amounts of capital. Their financial models are based on membership fees that grant access to a shared coworking space, resources, and access to other founders and oper...
Grant’s, at least on a few occasions, and that one of his devoted staff made it his mission to keep Grant on the wagon. Davis is pretty punctilious in laying out the occasions when Grant had too much to drink; if he was exhaustive about it, it wasn’t a real problem. It wouldn...
The same year we started the class, it was adopted by the National Science Foundation to train Principal Investigators who wanted to get a federal grant for commercializing their science (anSBIR grant.) The NSF observed, “The class is the scientific method for entrepreneurship. Scientists understa...
See Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error, about the widespread drive to privatize schools; Gerald Grant’s Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh, whose central idea is, in short, “It’s the segregation, stupid”; and then-Professor Elizabeth Warren’s...
I wanted to get my fiancé a tailored suit (his first) as a gift for our wedding. Something really stylish and classic like Cary Grant would wear that he could wear for other occasions as well. Mr. Pariani came to our apartment for the fitting and helped us select great styles and fab...
Keep your eyes open as Celebrities abound. Look for Shane as he returns one of his Fiesta Bowl interceptions and Franco makes his Immaculate Reception! Kijana, LJ, Lenny Moore, Curt Warner and Saquon are all tearing up the turf so stay alert. Join the festivities at Marcus Allen/Grant Hal...
offering a gateway challenge grant for the preparation of a planning document to define what “economic development” was needed to accommodate the refugees that WEREN’T. (When one hears the term refugee, the image is of a starving displaced person – not a young, healthy, military age male...
“Lincoln’s remarkable abilities gave him a wide edge over Davis as a war leader, while in Grant and Sherman the North acquired commanders with a concept of total war and the determination to make it succeed.” [32] At the beginning of the war the leaders and populace of both sides sti...