Word: inc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final analysis, it boils down to educated instinct-call it judgment. What we make is a judgment on the people and the product." For instance, Boston's TA Associates and New York's Inco Securities have raised $3.5 million to start a new company called Immunogen Inc. The firm plans to develop the use of monoclonal antibodies, which are invisible bits of protein that could be used to carry toxins that will specifically attack cancerous and other diseased cells, while leaving healthy ones alone. Although the technique remains unproved, the company looked like a good bet largely because...
...Inc. went public. Genentech was founded by Robert Swanson, another former partner, sand Biologist Herbert Boyer. Today, Swanson is the president of Genentech, while Perkins is the chairman. The initial $200,000 put into the firm has swelled into stock worth $40 million...
...masters of venture money, however, must be patient. Since 1972, Kleiner, Perkins has been bankrolling Andros Inc., a small company that hopes to market an artificial heart. So far, the young firm has shown no profit...
Venture capitalists routinely come across way-out investment proposals. But few have sounded wackier, yet paid off more handsomely, than Pizza Time Theater Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. The company operates a rapidly growing, 50-restaurant chain of fast-food pizza parlors in which food is almost the least of the attractions...
...full enrollment of 80 youngsters is expected this summer for each of four fortnightly sessions at California's Computer Camp Inc., the nation's largest, located in Los Padres National Forest outside Santa Barbara. Now in its second year, the camp was created by Denison Bollay, 28, who became addicted to computers at age 13. About one-fourth of the Los Padres campers are familiar with computers before they arrive (some bring their own home computers with them); for most, though, the two-week immersion is their first close encounter with the machines...