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H2O Audio is Learning to Swim

SoCal Tech Calendar

MIT Enterprise Forum SD. From its fast start out the gates, H2O Audio hit the deep underwater diving market and quickly found its niche. Providing a patented way to successfully waterproof music for divers, it then moved into action water sports. By 2008, H2O Audio had hit the wall. See [link] (more).

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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. Basically it was a restart from primarily a legal office to an office filled with people with technology and marketing backgrounds.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab.

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