• Seed Money
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Burson-Marsteller 1990s: Global presence and Philip Morris
The NSA was founded with an
estimated $4 million in Philip Morris
seed money and involvement of some
fifty other tobacco industry players.
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Groupon
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The idea subsequently gained the
attention of his former employer, Eric
Lefkofsky, who provided $1 million in
"seed money" to develop the idea
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Harvard Law School - Post-Kagan
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This first of a kind program will offer seed
money for start-up non-profit ventures and
salary support for graduating J.D
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Juniper Networks - History
1
Sindhu started the company in February
1996 with $200,000 in seed money from
powerful venture capital firm Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers, the deal led by
Vinod Khosla
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Media for equity
Media for equity funding fills a gap in
funding which exists after a new company
has spent its initial seed money, and hasn't
yet grown enough to attract large venture
capitalists. The company uses the
advertising to increase its customer base,
thereby increasing the value of its stock.
The start-up company makes money
directly, and the media company can sell
the stock at a profit.
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Daily Kos - Campaign fundraising
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For example, between Tom DeLay in Texas
and Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado, Moulitsas
calculates that the seed money provided by
the blog's fundraising tied up well over ten
times as much GOP money in return, and
kept two of the GOP's most prolific
fundraisers back home campaigning in their
own districts for several weeks each, rather
than roaming the country raising money for
other candidates, as they had in past
elections
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Entrepreneurship - Background
Many "high value" entrepreneurial
ventures seek venture capital or angel
funding (seed money) in order to raise
capital for building the business
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Pyra Labs - History
When the company's seed money
dried up around the same time, the
employees continued without pay for
weeks or, in some cases, months; but
this could not last, and eventually
Williams faced a mass walk-out by
everyone including co-founder
Hourihan
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Shugart Associates - History
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After two years the seed money was gone and
Shugart had no product to show for it
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California Institute of Technology - Throop College
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Gates to donate $25,000 in seed money to
build Gates Laboratory, the first science
building on campus.
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Startup company - Evolution of a startup company
Venture capital firms and angel
investors may help startup companies
begin operations, exchanging seed
money for an Stock|equity stake
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Doctor of Philosophy - Value and criticism
To counter this, the United States
introduced the Doctor of Arts degree in
1970 with seed money from the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching
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Snapchat - History
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Snapchat raised US$485,000 in its Seed
money|seed round and an undisclosed
amount of Bridge financing|bridge funding
from Lightspeed Ventures. In June 2013,
Snapchat raised US$60 million in a
funding round led by venture-capital firm
Institutional Venture Partners. The firm
also appointed a new high-profile board
member Michael Lynton of Sony's
American division.
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Survata
In June 2013, they raised a $1.5
million Seed money|seed round from
PivotNorth Capital and SoftTech
VC.Yuliya Chernova.
[http://pevc.dowjones.com/Article?a
n=DJFVW00020130604e964an85n Y
Combinator Grad Survata Looks to
Take a Bite Out of Online Research
Market.] Dow Jones VentureWire,
6/4/2013.
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Seed money
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'Seed money', sometimes known as 'seed
funding', is a form of securities offering in
which an investor purchases part of a
business. The term seed suggests that
this is a very early investment, meant to
support the business until it can generate
cash of its own, or until it is ready for
further investments. Seed money options
include friends and family funding, angel
funding, and crowdfunding.
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Seed money - Usage
Seed money can be used to pay for
preliminary operations such as
market research and product
development. Investors can be the
founders themselves, using savings
and loans. They can be family
members and friends of the founders.
Investors can also be outside angel
investors, venture capitalists,
accredited investors or government
programmes.
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Seed money - Usage
Seed money may also come from
crowdfunding or from financial
bootstrapping rather than an equity
offering. Bootstrapping in this context
means making use of the cash flow of
an existing enterprise.
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Entrepreneur - Background
Many high value entrepreneurial
ventures seek venture capital or angel
investor|angel funding (seed money)
in order to raise capital
(economics)|capital for building the
business
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Andrew Mason - Career
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Mason was employed as a developer at
InnerWorkings, a company founded by
Lefkofsky, in 2006. Lefkofsky provided
Mason with $1 million in seed money to
bankroll The Point, a now largely inactive
web platform, which was Mason's first
entrepreneurial venture on the Internet.
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GreenFacts - Funding
1
GreenFacts was founded in December
2001 with seed money from the Belgian
chemical company Solvay
(company)|Solvay
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Crowd funding - Intellectual property exposure
1
As Slava Rubin, founder of IndieGoGo said: “We
get asked that all the time, ‘How do you protect me
from someone stealing my idea?’ We’re not liable
for any of that
stuff.”[http://www.inventorsdigest.com/archives/70
37 Mike Drummond, “Making it Rain: Seeking Seed
Money from the Crowd”], Inventors Digest, August
2011 Inventor advocates, such as Simon Brown,
founder of the UK-based United Innovation
Association, counsel that ideas can be protected
on crowdfunding sites through early filing of
patent applications, use of copyright and
trademark protection as well as a new form of idea
protection supported by the World Intellectual
Property Organization called Creative Barcode.
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Netscape Navigator - Origin
1
Clark believed that the Mosaic browser
had great commercial possibilities and
provided the seed money
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Disability rights movement - In the USA
The first Disability Pride
Parades|Disability Pride Parade in the
United States was held in Chicago on
Sunday, July 18, 2004. It was funded
with $10,000 in seed money that Sarah
Triano received in 2003 as part of the
Paul G. Hearne Leadership award from
the American Association of People
with Disabilities. According to Triano,
fifteen hundred people attended the
parade. Yoshiko Dart was the parade
marshal.
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Electric vehicle warning sounds - Enhanced Vehicle Acoustics
Enhanced Vehicle Acoustics (EVA), a
company based in Silicon Valley, California
and founded by two Stanford students with
the help of seed money from the National
Federation of the Blind, developed an
After-market (general)|after market
technology called Vehicular Operations
Sound Emitting Systems (VOSES)
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Sesame Street - Funding
From the first season, they understood
that the source of their funding, which they
considered seed money, would need to be
replaced
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Mississippi - Education
With seed money from the Julius
Rosenwald Fund, many rural black
communities across Mississippi
raised matching funds and
contributed public funds to build new
schools for their children
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Falcon 9 - Funding
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While SpaceX spent its own money to
develop the previous launcher, the
Falcon 1, the development of the
Falcon 9 was accelerated by the
purchase of several demonstration
flights by NASA. This started with seed
money from the Commercial Orbital
Transportation Services (COTS)
program in 2006. Without the NASA
money, development would have taken
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Satellite Sentinel Project - Organization and funding
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Not On Our Watch Project provided
seed money to launch the Satellite
Sentinel Project. The Enough Project
contributes field reports, policy
analysis and communications
strategy, and, together with Not On
Our Watch and its SUDANNOW
partners, pressures policymakers by
urging the public to act. Google and
Internet strategy firm Trellon, LLC
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Metal Construction Association - History
MCA took shape later that year when
these companies contributed seed money
for the new organization: American
Building Components; Binkley Company;
Corrugated Metal; Engineered
Components; McElroy Metal; Metal
Building Components Inc.; Moncrief
Lenoir; and Omega Metal Building
Products.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation - SpaceDev - Now SNC's Space Systems
On February 1, 2010, Sierra Nevada
Corporation was awarded $20 million in
seed money in phase 1 of NASA’s
Commercial Crew Development (CCDev)
program for the development of the
DreamChaser
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Dream Chaser - History
On 1 February 2010, Sierra Nevada
Corporation was awarded $20 million in
seed money under NASA’s Commercial
Crew Development (CCDev) program
for the development of the Dream
Chaser
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SpaceX - COTS program and CRS
This contract, designed by NASA to
provide seed money for development of
new boosters, paid SpaceX $278 million
to develop the Falcon 9 launch vehicle,
with incentive payments paid at
milestones culminating in three
demonstration launches.
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International Aerial Robotics Competition - Spin offs
1
The IARC was first established with
seed money for logistics and a grand
prize that was backed by the
Association
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United States Institute of Peace - Budget debate
1
“The idea began during the Cold War as a modest
proposal with $4 million in seed money
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Navteq - Karlin Collins, Inc.
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They were turned down by most venture
capital firms in their attempts to finance
the database but the president of Budget
Rent A Car suggested they ask T.Russell
Shields, a Chicago entrepreneur and
founder of Shields Enterprises
International, which specialized in building
order fulfillment databases. Shields
provided US$500,000 in seed money.
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Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. - Timeline
*2005 – Co-founded Y Combinator
(company)|Y Combinator, a seed-stage
Startup company|startup venture capital
firm|funding firm, that provides seed
money, advice, and connections at two 3month programs per year (with Paul
Graham (computer programmer)|Paul
Graham, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica
Livingston)
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Sarah Palin - Gas pipeline
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The governor also pledged
$500 million in seed money
to support the project
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Stock - Rule 144 stock
Investors either purchase or take
ownership of these securities through
private sales (or other means such as
via ESOPs or in exchange for seed
money) from the issuing company (as
in the case with Restricted Securities)
or from an affiliate of the issuer (as in
the case with Control Securities)
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Casual Friday (The Office) - Plot
When Michael calls their bluff and
starts throwing seed money at them,
Phyllis breaks down and says that they
were the real victims of Michael's
company, not corporate, and that they
were hurt since Michael had treated
them like a family and then turned on
them
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History of union busting in the United States - Nathan Shefferman (Labor
Relations Associates), 1940s-1950s
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Sears provided $10,000 seed money to
launch LRA.Confessions of a Union
Buster, Martin Jay Levitt, 1993, page
33-34
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Western Governors University - History
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While the seed money was provided
from government sources, the school
was to be established as a selfsupporting private, nonprofit
institution
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Accredited investors
'Accredited investor' is a term defined by
various countries' securities laws that
delineates investors permitted to invest in
certain types of higher risk investments
including seed money, limited partnerships,
hedge funds, private placements, and angel
investor networks. The term generally
includes wealthy individuals and
organizations such as banks, insurance
companies, significant charities, some
corporations, endowments, and retirement
plans.
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Arvind Kejriwal - Right to Information
Together with Manish Sisodia and
Abhinandan Sekhri, Kejriwal established
the Public Cause Research Foundation in
December 2006, donating the prize money
he had received from the Ramon
Magsaysay Award as a Seed money|seed
fund. This new body paid the employees
of Parivartan.
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Corporate Venture Capital - Objectives
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Although Dell hoped the seed money will
help its own business grow, the primary
motivation for the investments was the
opportunity to earn high financial returns.
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Corporate Venture Capital - Stages of financing
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'B. Seed money|Seed capital funds'
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Monthly Review - Establishment
Matthiessen funds made the launch of
Monthly Review possible, although the
amount of the seed money was reduced to
$4,000 per year in the second and third
years by the executors of Matthiessen's
estate following his suicide in 1950
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Doctor of Arts - History
The Carnegie Corporation of New
York|Carnegie Foundation was the first to
fund ten universities with seed money to
initiate the degree, and D.A
1
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Housing cooperative - New York metropolitan area
1
Working with the city’s housing agency, its
existing loan programs and the power to
dispose of abandoned property to nonprofit organizations, as well as the state
laws governing the establishment of cooperatives, UHAB was able to provide lowincome people with the tools – seed
money, legal advice, architectural plans,
bookkeeping training – to build and run
limited-equity housing co-operatives
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Echoing Green
Through a two-year fellowship
program, Echoing Green identifies
individuals with ideas for social
change and provides them with seed
money and strategic support to help
them launch new organizations
1
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Electronic music - Expansion: 1960s
1
In 1975, enabled by seed money from
the National Endowment for the Arts,
a new Audium opened, designed floor
to ceiling for spatial sound
composition and performance.
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Michael Moore - Career
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Moore sued for wrongful dismissal, and
settled out of court for $58,000, providing
him with seed money for his first film,
Roger Me.Matt Labash
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African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954) - The American Jewish community
and the civil rights movement
Washington and Tuskegee University,
Rosenwald created a matching fund which
provided seed money for building
1
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Society for Occupational Health Psychology - History
1
In 1996, the Journal of Occupational Health
Psychology was established. The European
Academy of Occupational Health Psychology
(EA-OHP) was established in 1999. In the
US, members arrived at the idea that the best
way to train the next generation was to create
graduate programs in OHP. Beginning in the
mid-1990s, APA and NIOSH began to furnish
seed money to support graduate training in
OHP. By 2001, there were OHP graduate
programs at 11 US universities.
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The Daily Kos - Campaign fundraising
For example, between Tom DeLay in
Texas and Marilyn Musgrave in
Colorado, Moulitsas calculates that the
seed money provided by the blog's
fundraising tied up well over ten times
as much Republican Party (United
States)|GOP money in return, and kept
two of the GOP's most prolific
fundraisers back home campaigning in
their own districts for several weeks
each, rather than roaming the country
raising money for other candidates, as
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates was one of
the first private foundations among
many bilateral donors to provide seed
money for the project.
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Betaworks
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'Betaworks' is a startup studio and
Seed money|seed stage venture
capital company based in New York
City that invests in network-focused,
consumer-facing media businesses.
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Co-founder - Background
1
Many high value entrepreneurial ventures
seek venture capital or angel
investor|angel funding (seed money) in
order to raise capital (economics)|capital
for building the business
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Y Combinator (company)
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Y Combinator provides seed money, advice,
and connections at two three-month programs
per year
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Atlas Group - Atlas Network/Group
It provides 'scholarships' and 'seed
money' potential libertarian lobbyists/thinktank founders around the world, and
operates under the name Institute for
Humane Studies
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San Francisco Oracle - History
The initial impetus for the paper came
from Allen Cohen and head shop owners
Ron and Jay Thelin, who offered to put up
the seed money to found an underground
paper
1
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International Crisis Group - History
George Soros was involved in
discussions early on and provided
seed money
1
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Ryan Block
In July 2008 Block posted on Engadget
that he would be stepping down as
editor-in-chief to create a new company,
leaving then Associate Editor Joshua
Topolsky in charge. On 1 July 2009, using
$550,000 in initial Seed money|seed
financing received from Betaworks and
True Ventures, Block and Rojas launched
gdgt; a discussion forum that generates
reviews and answers questions about
thousands of gadgets. In November of
2013, gdgt was merged with Engadget.
1
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Tripping (website) - Company description
1
In 2011, Quest Venture Partners invested
USD 450,000 in Tripping, bringing total
investment to over USD 1,000,000 in seed
money and bringing Tripping out of beta
version. In 2012 Tripping pivoted into
being a metasearch site for vacation
rentals.
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Falcon 9 v1.0 - Funding
1
While SpaceX spent its own money to
develop its first launch vehicle, the
Falcon 1, the development of the
Falcon 9 was accelerated by the
purchase of several demonstration
flights by NASA. This started with
seed money from the Commercial
Orbital Transportation Services
(COTS) program in 2006.
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COTS Demo Flight 1 - COTS Contract
This contract, designed by NASA to
provide seed money for development of
new boosters, paid SpaceX $278 million to
develop the Falcon-9 launch vehicle, with
incentive payments paid at milestones
culminating in three demonstration
launches
1
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Fairfield Greenwich Group - Fairfield Sentry Fund
Noel and Tucker created the Fairfield
Sentry fund in 1990 with $1 million in seed
money and began expanding it a year
later. At the time, Noel and Tucker said
Madoff provided more information and
transparency than most hedge funds, and
operated a reputable Wall Street firm.
1
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National Cooperative Bank
Chartered by the 95th Congress on
August 20, 1978, NCB commenced
lending operations as a federal
instrumentality on March 21, 1980.
Congress appropriated $184 million of
“seed money” in the form of U.S.
Treasury Notes, which represented
NCB’s initial capitalization and the
government’s ownership of the bank.
1
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National Cooperative Bank
In 1981, NCB was privatized as a
member-owned financial institution, and
the seed money was converted into
subordinated debt
1
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Motorcycle safety - Hurt Report
1
A major work done on this subject in
the USA is the Hurt Report, published
in 1981 with data collected in Los
Angeles and the surrounding rural
areas. There have been longstanding
calls for a new safety study in the US,
and Congress has provided the seed
money for such a project, but as yet
the remainder of the funding has not
all been pledged.
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History of education in the United States - Segregation and integration
1
Starting in 1914 and going into the 1930s,
Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist from
Chicago, established the Rosenwald Fund
to provide seed money for matching local
contributions and stimulating the
construction of new schools for African
American children, mostly in the rural
South
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Robin Morgan - Activism
1
With the royalties from her anthology
Sisterhood Is Powerful (1970), Morgan
founded the first feminist fund in the
US, The Sisterhood Is Powerful Fund,
which provided seed money grants to
many early women's groups
throughout the 1970s and 1980s
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Carolyn Kepcher - Post-Trump career
On November 28, 2006 Carolyn was
hired by Microsoft to star in a new
reality show, Ultimate Challenge, to find
the next best small-business venture. She
was to be one of three judges. The contest
winner would get $100,000 in seed
money, a storefront or other business
space in Manhattan rent-free for a year,
and software to help get their business
started.[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id
/15939718/ Fired by Trump, she's hired
by Microsoft] The pilot show was never
completed.
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Carnegie Corporation - John Gardner
The Corporation saw itself more as a
trendsetter in the world of philanthropy,
often supporting research or providing
seed money for ideas while others
financed the more costly operations
1
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Commonsensemedia - Early history
1
After founding JP Kids, an educational media
company for children, and Children Now, a
national child advocacy and media group, Jim
Steyer founded Common Sense Media in
2003. In an interview with the New York
Times, Steyer said he intended to “create a
huge constituency for parents and kids in the
same way that Mothers Against Drunk Driving
or the AARP has done. The group received
$500,000 in seed money from a group of
donors including Charles Schwab, George
Roberts, and James Coulter.
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Daniel Snyder - Career
1
In 1989, Snyder and his sister Michelle
founded a wallboard advertising (the
sale of advertisements placed on
boards inside buildings) company with
seed money from his father, who took a
second mortgage on his property in
England, and his sister, who maxed out
her credit cards at $35,000
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Leymah Gbowee - Receiving acclaim, yet struggling personally
Abigail Disney stepped up to help
Gbowee raise funds for launching
WIPSEN among philanthropists in
New York, enabling her to secure
$50,000 in seed money.Leymah
Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers (New
York: Beast Books, 2011), written with
Carol Mithers, p
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DC4EU - History
On 1 February 2010, Sierra Nevada
Corporation was awarded $20 million in
seed money under NASA’s Commercial
Crew Development (CCDev) program for
the development of the Dream Chaser
1
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Disability rights - In the USA
It was funded with $10,000 in seed money that
Sarah Triano received in 2003 as part of the Paul G
1
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Portland Incubator Experiment
Startups receive seed money and
spend three months developing their
businesses with support from W+K
and participating mentors
1
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Portland Incubator Experiment - Program structure
1
Participants receive $18,000 in seed
money in exchange for six percent
Equity (finance)|stakes and spend
three months at W+K's Northwest
District, Portland, Oregon|Northwest
Portland offices, developing their
businesses with assistance from
mentors, W+K, big brands and other
startups
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Timothy Ferriss - Investor and advisor
1
Ferriss is a pre-seed money advisor to
Uber (company)|Uber, a company cofounded by Garrett Camp, founder of
StumbleUpon, which Ferriss also
advises
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Jerry Rawlings - Awards and honours
*October 2013: Honorary degree
Doctorate of Letters from the
University for Development Studies.
This was in recognition of his
contribution to the establishment of
the University. In 1993 he used his
US$50,000 Hunger Project cash prize
in as seed money to sponsor the
establishment of the state-owned
university, the first of its kind in the
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NFL Films - Founding
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He received $20,000 in seed money from
each of the league's 14 owners, and in
return would shoot all NFL games and
produce a highlight film for each
team.[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/200
4/01/26/60II/main595946.shtml NFL Films,
Inc
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Public health insurance option - History
The federal government's health
insurance plan would have been financed
entirely by premiums without subsidy from
the Federal
government,[http://online.wsj.com/article/S
B124580516633344953.html Why We
Need a Public Health-Care Plan] Robert
Reich The Wall Street Journal although
some plans called for government seed
money to get the programs started.e.g
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Alex Ebert - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
They started writing music together,
and became a part of the art and music
collective The Masses, which was
partially started by some seed money
from actor Heath Ledger
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Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse
Other life sciences greenhouses in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia
and Life Sciences Greenhouse of Central
Pennsylvania|Harrisburg also received
seed money from the settlement
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South Portland, Maine - History
1
FVNCA was instrumental in the formation
of the [http://www.splandtrust.org/ South
Portland Land Trust] as well as the Citymanaged Land Bank which provides seed
money for the acquisition of available open
space.
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Kevin Johnson - St. HOPE
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But by January 2003, Johnson had raised
seed money from the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation|Gates Foundation and
drafted a petition to reopen Sac High as
an independent charter school
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Open Garden - Products
1
After raising $2 million seed money from a
group of leading technology industry angel
investors, Open Garden started
developing and incorporating Mesh
networking|roll out multi-hop connectivity
and channel bonding into their application,
features that have been on the company’s
roadmap since it was launched
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Punchbowl.com - Company history
The company was funded by Contour
Venture Partners, Intel Capital, and
eCoast Angels, receiving its Seed
money|seed round of funding on October
2, 2007 from lead investor Intel Capital.
On September 16, 2008, Punchbowl
announced its Series A round of funding in
the amount of $2.1M led by Contour
Venture Partners.
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John A. List - Charitable giving
For example, the higher the
announced seed
moneyhttp://karlan.yale.edu/fieldex
periments/pdf/List_The%20Effects%2
0of%20Seed%20Money%20and%20Ref
unds%20on%20Charitable%20Giving.
pdf the more people give
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John A. List - Academic publications
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*List, John A. and Lucking-Reiley, David.
“The Effects of Seed Money and Refunds
on Charitable Giving: Experimental
Evidence from a University Capital
Campaign,” Journal of Political Economy
(2002), 110(1): 215-233
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BlackPast.org - History of the organization
1
The seed money was used to hire Grip
Media of Portland, Oregon, to design a
professional web presence for
BlackPast.org
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Paul Allen - Scientific endeavors
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* Allen Telescope Array: Paul Allen
donated the seed money to build
SETI’s radio telescope array,
eventually contributing $30 million to
the project.
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Cleveland CycleWerks
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The company was founded by 'Scott
Colosimo', Jarrod Streng, and Curtis
Ray in 2009, who sought partner
factories in China after being turned
away by US parts suppliers, and
government seed money sources. The
company aims to fill a gap in the
motorcycle marketplace for
inexpensive yet stylish motorcycles
that riders find technologically
accessible, easing Custom
motorcycle|customization and
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Cleveland CycleWerks - Founding
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Colosimo said they went after millions
in grants from the US government,
hoping for money aimed at assisting
development of green vehicles, Since
we're using small displacement
engines, we're getting close to 100mpg,
but the familiar technology of the
ubiquitous Honda engine design did
not qualify for seed money, since it was
not, ultra-green technology that no
one's heard of, some sort of wizardry
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Crossword - American-style crosswords
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Given the existing entries, 'SEED MONEY'
would also be unacceptable, as all the
other theme entries end in the part of a
tree as opposed to beginning with it,
though the puzzle could certainly be
changed to have a mix of words in
different positions.
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National Life Stories - Oral History Programme
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The first project to concentrate on the
arts was Artists’ Lives, which began in
1990 with crucial seed money for five
initial interviews provided by the
Henry Moore Foundation
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Groupon.com
The idea subsequently gained the
attention of his former employer, Eric
Lefkofsky, who provided $1 million in seed
money to develop the idea
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Arthur Davidson (motorcycling)
One day shortly after Davidson's
cleaning lady visited, he discovered
the seed money he had stashed
between his mattress to start HarleyDavidson was missing
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2004 Nobel Peace Prize - Green Belt Movement
Along with the partnership for the
Norwegian Forestry Society, the
movement had also received seed money
from the United Nations Voluntary Fund for
Women
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FUBU - History
The company was founded in 1992 by
Daymond John, J. Alexander Martin,
Keith Perrin and Carlton Brown with a
line of hats made in John's house in
Hollis, Queens|Hollis, Queens, New
York. According to the company website,
John mortgaged his own home for
$100,000, and with that seed money he
and his three friends and co-founders
Carlton Brown, J. Alexander Martin, and
Keith Perrin, turned half of his house
into a factory and the other half into
living space.(archived site)
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OMGPOP - History
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OMGPop was based in SoHo, in New
York City. The company received Seed
money|seed funding from Y
Combinator (company)|Y Combinator
during its early days as a Startup
company|startup.
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Gulf Oil - Demise
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These losses were mitigated some with
the donation of Gulf Labs in suburban
north Pittsburgh to the University of
Pittsburgh to be used as a research
business incubator along with $5
million ($ million today) in maintenance
and seed money
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New Community Movement - Basic steps
1
#Raising Seed Money 1: Through
sample cooperative projects
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Patch Media - History
1
He instead asked that his seed money
be returned to him in the form of AOL
stock when it split from Time Warner.
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National Christmas Tree (United States) - National Christmas Trees from 1955 to 1972
The group was incorporated on
September 30, 1955, with the Board of
Trade providing the seed money for the
new nonprofit organization
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Howard Government - Economy
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The Higher Education Endowment Fund
had provision for tax concessions for
private donors and offered $5 billion of
seed money to pay for university buildings
and research
facilities.[http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/conte
nt/2007/s1917877.htm The 7.30 Report ABC] The Government also promised
income tax cuts and a range of welfare
and aged care adjustments
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Nick Verreos - Project Runway
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In June 2005, Verreos participated in the
second season of Project Runway, a
reality television program in which fashion
designers compete against each other for
a design mentorship with Banana Republic
(clothing retailer)|Banana Republic, seed
money to start their own line, and other
prizes
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Velfarre - Albums
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The importance of the mix CDs cannot
be understated ~ without the Juliana's
Tokyo series, there would be no Avex
or Velfarre as that was what provided
the seed money for the rapid growth of
the company
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Project Runway (season 2)
The winning designer, Chloe Dao,
received $100,000 in seed money to help
launch her own line, a 2007 Saturn Sky
roadster, a spread in ELLE magazine, and
a mentorship with the Banana Republic
(clothing retailer)|Banana Republic Design
Team
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Andy Botwin - Sanjay Patel
He starts the second season by
“accidentally” burning down the bakery.
Nancy then uses the fire insurance benefit
as seed money to start the grow house.
Sanjay continues to work for Nancy in the
grow house until it is shut down by U-turn.
He Coming out|comes out of the closet as
gay at the beginning of season three, and
spends most of the season dressed up as
a gay stereotype. After U-turn dies, he
resumes selling pot for Nancy.
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Toyota AA - A1
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Three A1 prototypes were completed in
May 1935. None of them survive. They
were blessed in a Buddhist ceremony and
Kiichiro Toyoda then drove one of them to
his father's grave (his father having given
him the seed money to start a car factory).
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Toren Smith - Comics career
Still, his life there was difficult as a
sudden upswing in the value of the yen
just before his departure had cut his
limited seed money in half
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Luis Palau - Early life
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Palau first heard Billy Graham on a
radio broadcast from Portland,
Oregon while still living in Argentina
in 1950, and drew inspiration from
him. He later worked for Graham as a
Spanish translator and as an
evangelist. In 1970, Graham
contributed the seed money for Palau
to start his own ministry, which he
modeled after Graham's.
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Oprah's Big Give - Response
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In Fort Wayne, Indiana, $10,000 in seed
money was received by ABC affiliate
WPTA, which was then given to local trail
organizations. A community celebration
was held April 12, 2008, when it was
revealed that the total donations had
topped $1 million.
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Silvio Berlusconi - Milano Due
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Berlusconi's business career began in
construction. In the late 1960s, he
built Milano Due (Italian for Milan
Two), 4,000 residential apartments
east of Milan. The profits from this
venture provided the seed money for
his advertising agency.
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English Avenue and Vine City - Current Investment
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Invest Atlanta and the Arthur M. Blank
Foundation have also recently
partnered up to provide $30 million in
seed money for innovative and
transformative non-profits to help
revitalize the two neighborhoods.
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Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development - Related groups
InfoCom, an Internet company, shared
personnel, office space, and board
members with the HLF. The two
organizations were formed in California
around the same time, and both received
seed money from Hamas leader Marzook.
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HistoryLink - Foundation
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They and Paul Dorpat incorporated History
Ink on November 10, 1997, with seed money
from Patsy Bullitt Collins|Priscilla Patsy
Collins, by birth a member of Seattle's
wealthy and prominent Bullitt family. The
prototype of HistoryLink.org debuted on May
1, 1998, and attracted additional funding for a
formal launch in 1999. In 2003
HistoryLink.org expanded its content to cover
Washington state history. Meanwhile, History
Ink continues, focusing on the production of
history books.
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Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway - Tax gift
In addition, CPR also
supplied $2.3-million in seed
money to the Foundation
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List of Roseanne characters - Beverly Lorraine Harris
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She even provides the seed money for
the Lanford Lunch Box and insists on
staying on as a partner, but is later
forced out because Roseanne and
Jackie do not want to work with her
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Kai-Fu Lee - Innovation Works
On September 7, 2009 he announced
details of a $115m venture capital (earlystage incubation and seed money
business model) fund called Innovation
Workshttp://www.innovation-works.com
that aims to create five successful Chinese
Startup company|start-ups a year in
internet and mobile internet businesses or
in vast hosting services known as cloud
computing
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Anime South
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'Anime South' is a three-day anime
convention held in the city of
Pensacola, Florida. The convention
also has the distinction of being the
first anime convention to garner its
seed money from a small number of
contributors who desired an anime
convention in the area.
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Jasper Jacks - 2000s
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Chloe is in danger of losing her design
company, and must be happily
married to retain the seed money her
eccentric uncle left her
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Scarecrow (1973 film) - Plot
Lion is on his way to Detroit to see the
child he has never met and make amends
with his wife Annie, to whom he has been
sending all the money he made while at
sea. Max agrees to make a detour on his
way to Pittsburgh, where the bank that
Max has been sending all his seed money
is located. His plans are to open a car
wash, with Lionel as a partner.
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Broad Channel, Queens - The Broad Channel Historical Society
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With seed money from New York State
Senate|New York State Senator Ada
Smith, loose-leaf notebooks with
plastic sleeves were purchased in order
to begin documenting the colorful
history of “The Channel”
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Sommersby - Plot
He raises the seed money by selling
parts of his own farm to people who
will then work the land to grow tobacco
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The Texas Tribune - History
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Thornton and his wife, Julie, contributed
the initial seed money to fund the
organization's nascent operations and
began to raise money from around the
state and around the country from
individuals, corporations, and foundations
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Twilio - Reception
Following the success of the TechCrunch
Disrupt hackathon Seed accelerator 500
Startups announced the
[http://www.twiliofund.com Twilio Fund], a
$250,000 micro-fund to provide seed money
to startups using Twilio in September
2010.[http://gigaom.com/2010/09/23/got-atwilio-based-app-get-some-investmentdollars/ Got a Twilio-based App? Get Some
Investment
Dollars][http://blog.500startups.com/2010/09/
23/twilio-fund-for-500-startups/ Announcing
Twilio Fund for 500 Startups]. TechCrunch.
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Connie Mack - Owner
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The American League's white knight,
Charles Somers, provided the seed
money to start the Athletics and
several other American League teams
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Marc Lasry - Career
In 1989, Lasry and his sister Sonia
Gardner founded the distressed debt
investment firm Amroc Investments with a
$100 million in seed money from various
investors
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Maharishi Heaven on Earth Development - Maharishi Veda Land
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The MHOED loaned $4 million in
seed money, at 11% interest
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Iowa Hawkeyes - Rowing
Boathouse is named after the
benefactor, a former University of
Iowa basketball letterwinner, who
gave the seed money that made the
boathouse possible
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Dorabji Tata - Deaths
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Dorabji additionally provided the seed
money to fund the setting up of India's
premier scientific and engineering
research institution, the Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore
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Worldwide Pants - 2002–2006
:Letterman's approach is to nurture an
idea with seed money from his production
company, then get someone else to pay
for the rest of it. He isn't particularly
hands-on once the programs get past the
initial stages, but his imprimatur carries
weight with network buyers. They've got a
point of view about everything they do,
says Chris Albrecht, president of original
programming at HBO. These guys are
making television every night and have
been for a long time. You feel more
comfortable with them.
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The Full Monty (musical) - Act II
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Requiring a deposit at the club, Jerry
tries to get seed money from Pam,
which she denies. Nathan eventually
provides some college funds, and
Jerry is moved by Nathan's growing
belief in his father (Breeze Off the
River).
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Darfur Regional Authority - History
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In 2008 as the government failed to fulfil
its obligations to allocate the seed money
($700 millions) agreed upon in the
agreement Abdelgabar Dosa resigned and
is living as a refugee in the UK.
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Seed (disambiguation) - Other uses
* Seed money, an early
stage in the development of
an entrepreneurial firm
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