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...Student start-up companies are contributing to a technological boom in Cambridge. City officials and professors say the area is increasingly winning a reputation as a center for high-tech industry. And Harvard and MIT, the universities at either end of town, are the principal attraction...
...make matters worse, said Malone, financial backers like the Collegiate Network and the Heritage Foundation--who give conservative journals start-up money--stopped contributing funds. And Peninsula, with its penchant for radical views, never attracted many advertisers...
...began his professional life as cannon fodder at Procter & Gamble, an assistant brand manager working on products such as Abound!, a failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network...
BLUER SKIES JetBlue Airways, a new airline, is trying to wow travelers with irreverent ads, wider seats and new planes. With cheap fares and solid investment backing from the likes of George Soros, the company seems as if it has a shot. Nearly one-third of start-ups since '92 have failed, but optimism abounds. JetBlue isn't the only start-up ready to take wing. Twenty-four others are awaiting FAA certification...
...network to a packed, 8,000-strong congregation of the converted. We have made great strides, Chambers drawls in his West Virginian birch-beer-sweet voice, but we need to be ever vigilant, for around the corner, right outside this hall, lurks the enemy--Nortel, Lucent and start-up companies we've never heard of, jesters who would steal our cybercrown...