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June of 2009

 

Rate Boston Venture Firms Dominate New Mentoring Program for New York ...

Original at Xconomy external link    Mon, Jun 15

 MA Jeff Bussgang, a general partner at Boston's Flybridge Capital Partners who is also a founding member of First Growth, puts it this way: “The deals we see in Boston typically center around MIT or Harvard, which have created this really nice ecosystem ...

Rate High Tech for a Historic City—A 21-Year-Old Web Entrepreneur's ...

Original at Xconomy external link    Sun, Jun 14

 MA I got involved in the early stages of this effort back in October of 2008, when I was invited to a Technology Roundtable at MIT. It was surreal finding myself, a young web entrepreneur, talking with and having breakfast at the same table as Governor ...

Rate State Set to Make Big, “Green” High Performance Computing Announcement

Original at Xconomy external link    Tue, Jun 9

 MA But a new center for high performance computing is apparently being created at Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. A public event is planned for Thursday, with representatives of the state of Massachusetts, MIT, EMC, and a variety of others due to ...

Rate Next 10 to Sign Up for XSITE 2009 are Eligible to Win a Garmin GPS ...

Original at Xconomy external link    Tue, Jun 9

courtesy of the generous souls at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Only the next 10 folks to buy tickets for XSITE—the Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship—will be eligible to win the system, which includes a car mount kit, ...

Rate Where Innovation Happens—A Still-Forming Map of Boston's Growing ...

Original at Xconomy external link    Tue, Jun 9

 MA We've even chronicled the decline of a once-world famous computer science lab, the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), which is still based on Broadway in Cambridge, not far from MIT. But I've always wanted to wrap these up into a bigger ...

Rate The Health 2.0 Hub, Boston's Secret Entertainment Cluster, A Path ...

Original at Xconomy external link    Tue, Jun 2

 MA Chiang of MIT and A123Systems; Tillman Gerngross of Dartmouth, GlycoFi, and Adimab; Mick Mountz of Kiva Systems; and Christina Lampe-Onnerud of Boston Power (who just announced ambitions to build a 600-employee battery plant in Massachusetts). ...

May of 2009

 

Rate Honoring Catalysts For Girls' Science Education

Original at Xconomy external link    Wed, May 27

 MA Hammonds and Larisa Schelkin received Catalyst Awards for their work promoting the involvement of underrepresented groups in science. Hammonds was cited for her accomplishments at Harvard and at MIT, where she founded the Center for Study of Diversity ...

Rate Behind the Scenes of the MIT $100K: Leveraging 20 Years of History ...

Original at Xconomy external link    Mon, May 18

 MA When the MIT $10K launched in 1989-1990, the competition received 54 submissions and awarded $10000 in prize money. Behind these accomplishments was a founding team of MIT students and faculty with extraordinary vision. The vision: to motivate student ...

Rate Ksplice Wins MIT $100K—Software Updates With No Reboots

Original at Xconomy external link    Wed, May 13

 MA The Cambridge, MA-based company, which consists of four recent MIT graduates and one current student at the Institute, has just won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. This morning, Waseem Daher, Ksplice's COO and occasional “Chef Executive ...

Rate A New Nexus for Nomadic Entrepreneurs at the Cambridge Innovation ...

Original at Xconomy external link    Wed, May 6

 MA - Wade Roush and MIT will be amongst our first users of the space this summer,” Rowe says. “It should be a great mix.” masschallenge, an organization trying to raise $25 million for a venture fund to support startups in information technology, life sciences, ...

Year 2009

 

Rate LookStat Closes $500K from Founder's Co-op, Other Investors

Original at Xconomy external link    Thu, Apr 23

 MA Pathak was previously vice president of product management at Judy's Book in Seattle (which Sack founded), and also spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area as a co-founder of Quova, and Boston as an MIT alum in computer science. ...

Source:  Xconomy
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