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...success of these mini-moguls make the benefits of entrepreneurship enough that every hyper-competitive economics major needs to spend their summers at the helm of a start...
...offerings (charging $30 for unlimited local and long-distance calls), but officials have enough to be worried about these days just getting customers hooked up with Web access. Fewer than 200 accounts have been activated, while 1,350 locals remain on a waiting list, in part because of start-up problems with Prospect Street Broadband, a venture firm selected to handle Zplug's day-to-day operations, and in part because utility workers are still installing the network. City officials expect to name a new investor sometime...
Their company, Aresa, a Copenhagen-based biotech start-up, has genetically modified a common weed called thale-cress so that its leaves turn red when the plant comes in contact with nitrogen dioxide--a compound that naturally leaches into the soil from unexploded land mines made from plastic and held together by leaky rubber seals. Aresa is growing large patches of the stuff on old army shooting ranges that have been seeded with land mines...
...already politicized.” “There are already Students for Choice, and True Love Revolution, but you have to believe in what they believe in to get involved,” Alford said. Funded by the Women’s Center, Amplify is a start-up publication that aims to shed light on the existence of controversial issues affecting student life such as gender inequality and sexual orientation. At the same time, members stress that Amplify is not necessarily intended to serve as a springboard for activism. “We’re not trying...
...left Harvard with a reputation as the third most prolific passer in the football team’s history. A little more than ten years later, the former quarterback has developed a product that could impact Crimson football again. Over the last four years, Ferrara and his Boston-based start-up company, Xenith LLC, have designed a new and safer football helmet, which is receiving accolades from physicians around the nation. “It’s thrilling to see a whole new technology,” said Robert C. Cantu, the chief of neurosurgery service and director...