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Venture Capital in Hawaii: A New Era at Pacific Club Card Room
November 10, 2009 from 5pm to 6:30pm
The 19th Kipapa i ke Ala Lecture entitled, "Venture Capital in Hawaii: A New Era," will feature Karl Fooks. Karl is the president of the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation, an agency of the state of Hawaii that partners with private sector i...
Laurence,
While I agree with you that students with higher degree of parental involvement do better, I think your point about poor vs rich is the more critical factor.
The blunt reality is that children from rich families go to much better colle...
Good find. Key quote:
"The real promise of online education, experts say, is providing learning experiences that are more tailored to individual students than is possible in classrooms."
To Brendan's point, I do accept the risk of being limited/...
Is there any interest in doing home schooling? Given that this is a technology community and given the tremendous advances being made in on-line education, it would seem home schooling would be a promising approach to reduce the costs and shortcom...
I agree about the additional time and expense of meeting with people outside of Hawaii.
For all the criticisms the government receives, I think the traveling issue has a far greater impact and is obviously not caused by the government.
Any techn...
Jason Lau correctly pointed out that filing an intent to veto doesn't guarantee a veto. It buys the Governor another couple weeks to decide (request info, hold focus groups, etc.)
It looks like the Governor is planning to veto SB199.
Some good news for local companies for change:
http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/06/22/successful-startups-put-some-distance-between-their-hq-and-their-vcs/
It seems companies do well when they are far away from their investors...
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Are Hawaii's Tech Tax Credit Worth the Cost?
Today, the Honolulu Advertiser ran an article on 221/215. The article is primarily a strong attack on the prudence and viability of the tax credits. The article cites a new 25 page report by the Department of Taxation that is well worth reading.
The numbers look bad and the public reaction (both in quotes and comments from th… Continue
The numbers look bad and the public reaction (both in quotes and comments from th… Continue
Posted on December 29, 2008 at 9:45am — 225 Comments
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 3:22pm on April 21, 2009,
Truman Leung said… - Hope you're having a great time in Taiwan!
- At 2:19pm on December 26, 2008,
Mika Leuck said… - Aloha John. Thank you for being an early member and for all your contributions. Its nice to finally see a face :-)
- At 1:26pm on May 13, 2008,
Olin Lagon said… - Heh John, would love to contact you about Django. Just sent in a friend request. Thanks! Olin
- At 12:04pm on April 16, 2008,
Cory said… - Hey John,
Thanks a lot for the suggestion...looks and sounds really interesting. I'll have our gurus look into it. Thats really cool you've already used it too. Lets chat about your project next meetup...would be interesting to hear about some of the hurdles you had to overcome.
You going to the geeknick on Sunday? Maybe I'll see you there.
Cory
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