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Harvard’s Office of Technology Development recently licensed a new technology for analyzing large quantities of unstructured text to Crimson Hexagon, Inc., a start-up co-founded by Government Professor Gary King last year. King, who developed the technology with a team of researchers at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, said in an e-mail that the algorithm can can sort through thousands of blogs, books, articles and other sources of information in real time and extract a common opinion. In 2007, King founded Crimson Hexagon with Candace Fleming—a Harvard Business School graduate?...
...gripped Silicon Valley big time. The always-optimistic entrepreneurs who thrive out here came down with a major case of the Pessimism Flu. The contagion was traced to a special meeting called by Sequoia Capital - the blue-chip venture firm - whose brains and money are behind just about any start-up of consequence. The message the VCs gave their young start-ups? Get profitable...
...M.B.A. from UCLA before working at Sony Pictures from 1989 to 1994, according to a company spokesman. He went on to serve in a small consulting group within PricewaterhouseCoopers dedicated to strategy and operational consulting for motion-picture companies. He left in 1999 to join EHS Partners, a start-up consulting firm. A 2001 story in the Daily Telegraph of London, under the headline "Bust, but big bucks for the big boys," called Rajaram a "winner" in a deal for NanoUniverse, a Los Angeles- and London-based venture fund taken public on the London Stock Exchange, the Los Angeles Times...
...research institute will almost be like a research and development start-up in an academic environment,” Ingber said. “It will be very different from what has been done at Harvard in past years...
...briefly about whether I wanted to be a career academic, but I found that it wasn’t a good fit for me.” Ranganathan expressed confidence that he would remain in the health care industry following business school. “I like the small, start-up, entrepreneurial environment, and my inclination is towards that direction, either at a small company or at a venture capital firm,” he said. “I’m looking for opportunities to stay close to science while building a viable business, but these thoughts...