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With College Football Already Dominated, Big 12 Looks To VC
from the nice-try dept
Over the years, we've heard of plenty of places trying to become the "Silicon Valley of Whereversville," without much success. Part of the problem is that you need to create the full ecosystem that makes Silicon Valley function (if you can call it functioning). Most people recognize that often involves both a local university and plenty of venture capital dollars. So, if you have the university, how would you go about attracting that VC money? It seems that the colleges of the Big 12 have decided the answer is with what they may be best known for: their college football teams. They're setting up a conference for venture capitalist timed to coincide with the Big 12 championship football game in Kansas City. Not exactly known as a hotbed of innovation (though, perhaps that's the point), it seems that these schools are recognizing that they need to bribe VCs to come to town in the middle of December -- and college football is the best of what they have to offer (perhaps if they throw in some local BBQ it would seal the deal). The plan has obviously been well-thought out: "Most people in business who make money like sports, so we're going to find out if this works." Now that sounds like confidence.
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What he ^ said!
Word up!
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Boogers.
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big 12 college football
Not.
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VC and The Big 12
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Notre Dame is a huge contributor.
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This whole first post thing is getting out of hand. It wasn't til the 6th post before the discussion started. I started posting here to get away from elitist childishness at slashdot. Looks like it may be time to move on elsewhere. Isn't there a way to delete the "first posts"?
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Bad idea??? Bah...
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Big12 championship games
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