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holiday wishes come true. this is nbc "nightly news" with kate snow. good evening. with a lot of americans getting a jump start on the holidays and traveling this week, we have a potentially dangerous storm on the move. water so high that cars and even a fedex uck g stuck. florida is drying out today after the same system dumped as much as seven inches of rain there. some roads there were completely flooded. all total today 56 million americans are under flood alerts. by the end of this weekend washout, the storm will have soaked every state from florida all the way to maine. we ...

Max Brickman has invested in more than 14 companies in the Midwest with Heartland Ventures, many in HR tech, logistics and manufacturing tech. Here's how he…

Sramana Mitra: You have to build around capital-efficient principles. What about companies in the Midwest? Max Brickman: Absolutely. We have one called Claira.

Sramana Mitra: Let's do some examples of companies that you have invested in especially where you have brought them to your customers very early on. Max

Max Brickman, Founder at Heartland Ventures, talks about his firm's investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Let's start with a little bit of introduction about your background. Max Brickman: I'm from Wisconsin. I started in the entrepreneurial space early on. I bought my first property in northern Wisconsin when I was 14. It was money from a landscaping company that I had. One of our clients was going to sell their property, so we were going to lose an account. I, foolishly, raised my hand and said, "What if we were to buy it?" We were able to fix it up and rent it out and b...