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Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture

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I don’t know if it was their first investment, but they invested $75,000 in a researcher named Ken Olsen, at MIT. And we started to do it more officially, take some equity in the companies, allow the faculty to have equity—but still have exclusive licenses. Twenty years ago, everybody in Boston knew he was.

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