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The Ig Nobel awards were founded in 1991 by Abrahams. The awards are intended to make light of "things that a lot of people expect to be intimidated by and not to like," Abrahams said. This category includes everything from science to opera. Besides a number of science demonstrations, last...
Five years ago Harvard and a few other universities formed the National Science Coalition to lobby Congress for greater support for university research. Now the science coalition has teamed up with the National Business Coalition for Federal Research, an organization of 32 chambers of commerce which was recently founded to...
In 1996 she founded Start-Up Resources, and has since helped 45 companies get up and running--15 in the past two months alone. Although she charges $110 an hour, she still turns down six or seven jobs a week.
When young entrepreneurs have their phones working, they can call Terri Spears, who'll hire someone to answer them. A 31-year-old former human-resources director for a San Francisco bank, she founded AskHR.com 18 months ago. She and her five employees handle only midsize e-commerce companies. She...
On the drive back to Palo Alto, he phones Peter Van Alstine, a classmate from Dartmouth who founded a Boston e-commerce start-up that Chin is backing. When Van Alstine tells Chin how much stock a prospective executive has asked for, Chin nearly swerves off the highway. "Get outta...