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...start-up[dot]com HELLOASIA.COM AIMS TO BE BOTH "STICKY" AND PROFITABLE...
Kenny, who studied management and mathematics at Cambridge University, knows Internet start-ups intimately. His Taiwanese-American wife is co-founder and CEO of DotLove.com whose website dispenses sex and love-life advice to lovelorn Chinese. Kenny co-founded his own company last September with Cheng, 29, a well-connected Hong Kong financier. Last December, Brett Rierson, a former vice president at A.T. Kearney Executive Search's global technology practice in London and Hong Kong, became the third partner. One start-up, a classified-advertising website, has graduated from Incubasia and four others are in the hatchery...
...program will ultimately help students looking to become involved in the high-tech world through a variety of programs--for example, providing mentors, bringing speakers to campus, and helping students obtain start-up capital for their projects...
...fact, more students are going directly into the job market than before, joining the start-up economy rather than going on to graduate school...
During the past several weeks Harvard, once an institution of higher learning, has taken significant steps towards becoming a start-up incubator. First, the college proposed relaxed restrictions on the operation of businesses from dorm rooms. Now comes the announcement of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). Modeled after the Institute of Politics (IOP), TECH is being touted as a resource center to teach students about entrepreneurship and help them launch their own businesses while still at school...