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Since then, many other Harvard students have followed in the now billionaire's footsteps and have created their own start-up companies--a trend that is not going unnoticed at the Office of Career Services...
...today, in recognition of this trend, OCS will hold the first of several major events for students interested in start-up companies...
...event--entitled "Step Up to Start Ups"--will be held at the Gutman Conference Center at the Graduate School of Education and will consist of a panel discussion on various aspects of start-up companies. It will also include a fair in which students will be able to network with representatives from more than 30 companies...
beenz is now a global operation, with offices from New York City to Stockholm to Sydney to Hong Kong. And it's getting to be a significant business: in November the company completed its third round of venture-capital fund raising, bringing total investment in the start-up to almost $40 million; its technology partners include such heavy hitters as Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Web-hosting giant Exodus. There are almost 750 million beenz in circulation--roughly equivalent to the currency float of a small country...
...enter "recovery" at 13 and pen best-selling memoirs on their struggles before they've even taken their SATs. Expect a crop of precocious old souls filling the talk shows with painful reminiscences of their abrupt descent into addiction after, in the months preceding their Bar Mitzvah, their Internet start-up lost half its market cap because of an unforeseen jump in interest rates...