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New York - Chapel Hill - Palo AltoThe Venture Company, founded in Palo Alto by Georges van Hoegaerden in 1998, is an economic advisory firm for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, institutional investors and governments, designed to maximize the opportunity and growth of groundbreaking innovation that produces authentic social economic and financial value.
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