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...Gregory L. Waldorf said, “Just sheer hustle.” About 15 people gathered on the fourth floor of Harvard Student Agencies yesterday in an event sponsored by the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum to listen to Waldorf talk about his experience with the match-making start-up. Waldorf joined the company in August 2000 as a founding investor. The main question Waldorf addressed was a central problem facing Internet entrepreneurs. How can online businesses devise a model that could turn a profit when people are accustomed to free services and online advertising has failed generate substantial revenue...
...country, have led their own research laboratories for three to five years, putting them at a career stage that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Web site called the “most productive—and most vulnerable.” Because researchers’ start-up funds from their host institutions typically dry up after this duration, the pressure to secure federal grant money can lead to safe research proposals at the expense of bolder and potentially ground-breaking projects. Wagers, who studies how blood-forming and skeletal muscle-forming stem cells may be harnessed...
...site's massive growth made it an easy target for hackers, privacy advocates, parent groups, competitors and (fortunately for co-founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe) investors with fat checkbooks. But with its purchase by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, MySpace has gone from freewheeling, easy-living Web start-up to establishment player. And as it reluctantly approaches maturity, MySpace has new challenges to face, securing advertisers and innovating new features chief among them. Oh yeah - and a pesky little start-up called Facebook...
...start-up, founded by two Harvard students, offers discounted prices on airfares and taxis to and from Logan Airport and has also promised to bring a ride-sharing feature to campus. The site’s owners claim that they “will continue to expand our product and service offerings until GetOutOfCambridge.com serves as the one-stop shop for traveling students.” This is a worthy goal, even if the organization is a for-profit enterprise. The new website is especially useful for students, who usually travel with strict budget constraints...
That lackluster turnout failed to dissuade Page and venerable musher Joe Redington Sr., who mortgaged his home and sold a piece of land to help finance the event's start-up costs. Their efforts helped persuade officials to stage the first full-length Iditarod in March, 1973, in which Dick Wilmarth and his lead dog, Hotfoot, triumphed by covering the inhospitable terrain in 20 days. Since 1983, the Iditarod - the word is said to mean "distant place" in indigenous Alaskan dialects - has steadily grown in popularity, becoming both the most popular sporting event in the state and an international touchstone...