August 2011
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Red Squirrel's Nuts: Chicago needs Code Academy  →
redsquirrelsnuts: Earlier this year, I blogged about Chicago’s Ruby Developer Crisis. As far as I can tell, not much has changed. In fact, with Braintree’s funding and the acqusition of Obtiva by Groupon, the demand for Ruby developers has likely grown even stronger. So, what are we, the Chicago Ruby…
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God, Republicans are saps. They think that they’re running against some academic liberal who wouldn’t wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn’t proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they’re running against some naïve university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson. But as recent weeks have made clear,...
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RISK MANAGEMENT IN PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS: A... →
RISK MANAGEMENT IN PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS
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