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

Xconomy

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. Twenty years ago, everybody in Boston knew he was. Then it got acquired by Millipore.

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