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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. It basically helped invent the ultra-filtration field. Then it got acquired by Millipore.

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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. The Caltech/MIT Enterprise forum is a joint venture ofCaltech’s Industrial Relations Center, Caltech’s Office of Technology Transfer, the Caltech Alumni Association and the MIT Alumni Association.

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