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VaRoom, the portal for Virginia business, is a special project produced by the Tayloe Murphy Center's Northern Virginia Center and The Batten Institute.
 
John Maya Batten Fellow, is Director of the Northern Virginia Initiative.  Since 1997, he has been the managing partner of New Vantage Group (NVG), a Virginia based firm that creates innovative channels to direct private equity into early stage companies.  He is the co-author of Every Business Needs an Angel and is co-editor of State of the Art:  An executive briefing on Cutting-Edge practices in American Angel Investing.  He is a board member of the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association, the Angel Capital Association, and the National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance.  John earned a B.A. from Earlham College and received his M.A. from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.  E-mail John at mayj@darden.virginia.edu.

Faith J. Rubenstein is the Associate Director of the Tayloe Murphy Center’s Northern Virginia office. Prior to assuming her Northern Virginia position, she served as a Research Associate at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.  She is the author of numerous case studies and two books including The Political Economy of Trade.  Faith has more than 15 years of professional research experience, including eight years at the Darden School.  She earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and received her M.A. from Columbia University. E-mail Faith at rubenstein@darden.virginia.edu

 
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The Darden School is one of the world's premier case study schools.  To inaugurate VaRoom, we offer this innovative case study by Darden Professor of Organizational Behavior,

Joseph Harder.  His multimedia case study focuses on Play, a Richmond,

VA-based company. Click for more.

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