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Stanford has long been an investor in many tech companies through the venture capital holdings in its endowment and technology licensing. But the university also extracts a toll out of the tech industry through its real estate holdings. Read More »
After laying off thousands yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Stanford today in high spirits, telling students that his company is hiring and that he can’t think of a better time to start a business. “These are tough economic times, but these are times that… Read More »
This week’s short list of stories, posts and other founder-resources you shouldn’t miss. 1.) From VC John Doerr, check out this slide outlining the difference between mercenaries and missionaries of entrepreneurship. Missionaries are good (passion). Mercenaries are not (paranoia). The slide is from… Read More »
The FCC has scheduled a second set of network management hearings to be held on the Stanford campus on April 17. A do-over of the hearings that were held last month at Harvard, perhaps? That gathering was driven, at least in part, by… Read More »
In my first Found|READ post, How to Work the Room, I gave you tips on how to amp up your social graces for the business party circuit, because — a much as we might hate to admit it — a founder’s startup success… Read More »
David Churbuck: While I rather see the private marketplace do its economic magic, the cozy relationship between the Telcos and public utility commissions insures we’ll never see true free market capitalism at work. Read More »
Lost in all the holiday cheer was the news that Logitech and Skype are going to be co-marketing each others products and services. Logitech will bundle up to 120 minutes worth of free vouchers for SkypeOut, the pre-pay service that allows Skype users to call… Read More »
We have all seen Mirra, the connected storage drive, and some of us have liked it as well. And that despite the fact that it works only with Windows. I complained about this to the company’s senior executives recently. Actually badgered them about why… Read More »
