Burrill to start angel investment fund in northern WisconsinSteve Burrill is searching for money, this time among rich vacation-goers in northern Wisconsin. The San Francisco-based biotech investor who is trying to create a $250 million investment fund to back the Elk Run BioBusiness Park in Pine Island, Minnesota, also is forming a new angel investment group in the Badger State. Burrill is joining forces with former Wisconsin commerce secretary Dick ...
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Harris: Angel investors spread their wingsAngel investors — typically wealthy entrepreneurs who invest their own money in startups in the early stage of their development — are gaining importance at a time when the recession-hammered venture capital industry is in a painful contraction.
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Chicago public high school opens WednesdayCHICAGO (WBBM) — Mayor Richard Daley today will preside over this dedication of a new high school, the only one to open this year in Chicago. Mayor Daley will dedicate and tour the $98.6-million dollar Eric Solorio Academy High School in the 5400 block of South St. Louis. At Alderman Ed Burke’s request, the school [...]
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