Teaching Entrepreneurship: Turning “Street Smarts” Into “Business Smarts”
Almost half of the students who enter a Philadelphia public high school don’t graduate. That’s a devastating and sad statistic. It condemns these students to…
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Social Media IPOs—A Trend to Alter VC Investment?
I was reading an article by the San Jose Mercury News’ Patrick May recently, titled “IPOs by LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and others could alter venture…
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The Internet of Things Making Headlines
Last week, we announced that we provided $5 million in a Series B financing for ThingWorx, a disruptive technology that revolutionizes how people, systems and…
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Safeguard Scientifics Aggregate Partner Company Revenue Exceeds $400 Million in 2010
Safeguard Scientifics’ value creation strategy is to deploy capital and build value in our partner companies. One of the best ways to evaluate our progress is…
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Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble – or Not?
In the wake of bursting housing and financial bubbles, it is little wonder why there is widespread speculation throughout the venture capital and private equity…
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Taming Regulatory Reform
Many a CFO has lost more than a night’s sleep contemplating both the intended and unintended consequences of new healthcare regulations. Because of the uncertainty…
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Life Sciences Trends for 2011: Companion Diagnostics, Reimbursement and Consumerization
Last week, Safeguard Scientifics’ Life Sciences team attended J.P. Morgan’s 29th Annual Healthcare Conference and OneMedForumSF 2011 (video) in San Francisco. Our main takeaway is that…
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2010 Achievements and 2011 Outlook: Safeguard Scientifics, Capital Markets, Regulatory Compliance and more
Last year around this time, as we headed into 2010 and were making plans for the coming year, we were in the midst of the…
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Communicating Value and Increasing Transparency
Cash on our balance sheet may be growing with every well-timed exit transaction and positive momentum is driving Safeguard’s stock price upward; however, our IR…
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