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If you’ve turned on your TV anytime in the last, oh, decade or so, you’ve no doubt been bombarded by ads imploring you to “ask your doctor” about Drug X. And you’re well familiar with the routine: You get treated to... Read more »
You wouldn’t throw a fancy dinner party in a 7-Eleven. You wouldn’t hold a symphony concert in a subway station, or teach a meditation class on a tilt-a-whirl ride.
So why does anyone expect readers to read long articles on the Web?
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When it comes to tech startups—especially in Internet software and app development—San Diego has been adrift in the horse latitudes. That’s the term Spanish mariners had for the waters where the trade winds died out for days and even weeks at... Read more »
For months, Aaron Greenspan, the founder of the now-defunct mobile payments service FaceCash, has been getting deeper into a legal battle with the State of California over the way it regulates money transfers. And he thinks the implications of his fight... Read more »
Don’t know about you, but I’m less interested in Facebook’s IPO than I am in the efforts of people trying to find the next Facebook out of Boston/Cambridge. One such effort is the new Experiment Fund, based at Harvard University, which... Read more »
At Xconomy’s event yesterday, New York’s Venture Emergence, members of Gilt Groupe’s founding team fascinated a standing-room-only audience with the tale of how, in just four years, they grew from a scrappy startup to one of the most successful e-commerce sites on the... Read more »
Snapette was supposed to be an unusual way for Sarah Paiji to spend the summer between her two years at Harvard Business School. It was a mobile app idea she started working on last winter with HBS alum Jinhee Ahn Kim, aimed... Read more »
Founder and Chairman, Canary Foundation
Founder, MicroCHIPS
Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
CEO and Founder, ExploraMed Development
Head of global research and development at Life Technologies.
Dir., Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, UC San Francisco
Partner, ARCH Venture Partners
Assoc. Dir. Of Mobility Research, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
President and CEO, Complete Genomics
Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University
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