His religious odyssey closed with the publication of Der alte und der neue Glaube (1872; The Old Faith and the New), in which he ventured to replace Christianity with scientific materialism, a personalized form of Darwinism.
Now, a tech startup called Zugata has raised $7 million in Series A venture funding to replace the crusty old performance review with something more motivating to this group than a twice-a-year, managerial write-up.
Yesterday's incident is probably, finally, mercifully, going to put an end to all this, but whatever mawkish, committee-led, please-trust-us-again public relations venture they decide to replace "do a banter" with, it'll undoubtably be worse.
Though Kickstarter is not designed to replace venture capital, it has shown great potential to bring ideas to market, and give traction to projects that, if well-executed, can grow.
The Russians' troubleshooting comes at a critically important time for NASA, as members of Congress and the White House are in a dispute over the scale of financing for the private spaceship ventures that are intended to replace the shuttle.
The British government and Welsh employment bodies funded and subsidized external businesses to locate new ventures within the valleys to replace the vanishing heavy industries.
Whatever success they may realize, they are not expected to replace traditional venture capital or angel investing anytime soon.
Backed by $3.6 million in funding from Aslanoba Capital, one of Turkey's most active venture firms, the company wants to replace fast food with traditional, healthy Turkish cooking for a generation of young people and families that rely increasingly less on full-time, in-home cooks.
The idea is not to replace traditional expert venture capitalists, but augment them with a crowd of evangelists, recruiters and connectors.
The campaign is for Cingular Wireless, the joint venture formed in October between the BellSouth Corporation and SBC Communications to replace 11 regional brands like BellSouth Mobility, Pacific Bell Wireless and Southwestern Bell Wireless.
