Word: siliconing
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...personal finances, but it's just too confusing - and boring! Secretly, we wish someone else would do it for us. This is the key factor behind the success of Mint.com, a website that was started three years ago by then 25-year-old CEO Aaron Patzer in his Silicon Valley apartment. Now it has been sold to Intuit for a stunning $170 million...
Setting the Record Straight In our article "China's Power Play" we should have emphazised that Lishen provides hardware manufacturing while Coda provides sales know-how and high-tech expertise [Aug. 31]. And also, Coda Automotive is based in Santa Monica, Calif., not Silicon Valley as we stated...
Each of the entrepreneurs has a strong connection to the Business School. Several ran companies that were the subject of HBS case studies. In addition, Bussgang had been a HBS Business Plan Contest judge and Decker had served on an advisory board for HBS’s Silicon Valley research center. Roberts said that the Rock Center chose alumni who have demonstrated an interest in both entrepreneurship...
...local church, where Jones gave a talk that was half-sermon, half economic brief, on the coming green jobs revolution. Next we crossed the bay to San Francisco's gilded city hall, where Jones received an award from the Full Circle Fund, a philanthropic organization founded by Silicon Valley's wealthy. That was Jones's singular talent: his ability to be a human bridge, from gritty Oakland to green San Francisco, all the way to the White House, because he knew that environmentalism could only break out of its niche if it could be made to matter to everyone. (Read...
...been named the Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics. Ham is best known for his invention of a handheld nuclear magnetic resonance system, which may profoundly affect doctors’ ability to screen patients for ailments ranging from cancer to viruses. The single-silicon-chip device is not only smaller but less expensive than the machines that are being used today for NMR testing. Ham, who has known about the appointment since May, wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday that his new post will allow him to conduct more adventurous research but will not lessen...