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Alvelda has so far figured out how to achieve his work goal: to grow MobiTV with the best people who can keep the company relevant. "Here we are," he says, "a tiny, clever mouse dancing between elephants." That's some rodent. Every new MobiTV product or service touches a multitude of partners and involves infrastructure, new technologies (for server, handset and network), testing, integration with carriers, marketing and sales support, business development and contract negotiations. "It's a real three-ring circus," he says. "You have to make sure that no one drops anything as they juggle...
...Alvelda realize the marketability of a concept contained in a chapter of his 1995 Ph.D. thesis. That concept begat MicroDisplay, his first start-up, that same year and united his twin passions: education and technology. "There is an aspect of education and communication that helps people to grow personally that I never anticipated as part of the corporate world," he says...
...chief technology officer, Johansson, 37, has been making bets on changing the media-delivery game on mobile telephones (of which he owns three) since 2000. You might think of him as MobiTV's cartographer, the one who creates the technology road map and links strategy with scale to grow the start-up into a mature company. "I've made every mistake in the book," says Johansson confidently. But that's assuming there is a book for the nascent industry...
...them support in training and beyond. It also doesn’t hurt that the three members of the class of 2010 knew each other before arriving on campus. Years of competing against one another in junior national competition provided a solid base for a friendship that continues to grow. “The three of us all get along really well and we’re really good friends on and off the [team],” Pensler said. This friendship has been crucial in allowing the freshman foil fencers to adjust to the additional pressure placed on their...
...thing for Latin America by any means. Since NAFTA began in 1994, Mexican exports to the U.S. have leapt from $40 billion to almost $200 billion. The problem is that, at the same time, the richest 10% of Mexicans have seen their share of national income grow appreciably while that of the poorest 10% has declined. The reason: neither free trade nor the U.S. has done much to help Latin America build the kind of institutions, like adequate schooling or functioning judiciaries, that spread that wealth through the economic bloodstream...