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Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture

InfoChachkie

“Diversity on all levels, be it ideas, education, background, gender, ethnicity or otherwise, is critical to our growth. Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell. The Power of a Diverse Workforce.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

Signaling an overall shift away from costly hardware in favor of affordable cloud-based voice and text messaging services for the commercial and non-profit sectors, CallFire announced that it has surpassed 50,000 users. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum. “We

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10 Reasons To Start A Company In An Economic Downturn

InfoChachkie

Victory usually satisfies, but it seldom educates. Watson, IBM Founder. If we had stayed on the sidelines, waiting for less market uncertainty, we would have lost the opportunity to file the landmark medical robotic patents that eventually motivated Intuitive Surgical to purchase Computer Motion for approximately $150 million.

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

Xconomy

X: I read an article from 1998 that you were quoted in—it sounded like Stanford’s Niels Reimers helped MIT reorganize its patenting and licensing office in 1986 to make it more like Stanford’s model. It basically helped invent the ultra-filtration field. Then it got acquired by Millipore. LN: Right, he came on a sabbatical year.

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