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

Xconomy

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. And that meant that MIT had to look at its policy of doing this as MIT, rather than private activities. And so we got our act together, we got our policies together, very conservatively.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

For me, FI was great for networking with Adeo and the other mentors, who are all world class successful entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the other founders in the program. I have also attended Thursday Lunch ( thursdaylunch.com ), Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum , and Digital LA. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.

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