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

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What, I think, is the first technology-based, early-stage venture capital fund anywhere, American Research and Development , was founded between Georges Doriot at Harvard Business School and Karl Compton, who was president of MIT at the time. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

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