http://museum.mit.edu/150/78 The MIT 150 Exhibition Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://museum.mit.edu/150/78#comment-1650 How Startups Have Changed the Way American Business Thinks | Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:10:57 +0000 http://museum.mit.edu/150/?p=190#comment-1650 [...] But down in the trenches, in places like Silicon Valley and the greater Boston area, new institutions were being developed. Frederic Terman, the famous MIT academic transplanted to Stanford, had pioneered the idea of “steeple building,” creating engineering ” steeples of excellence,” attracting federal research dollars, recruiting top faculty for new and commercially relevant disciplines and encouraging top students like “Bill” and “Dave” of Hewlett Packard fame to spin off their companies, creating jobs for Stanford graduates, and sparking regional development. General Georges Doriot at Harvard was working out plans for one of the nation’s earliest venture-capital funds, the storied American Research and Development. [...]

]]> http://museum.mit.edu/150/78#comment-109 Ken Olsen, DEC’s Founder, Dies Aged 84 | eWEEK Europe UK Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:50:16 +0000 http://museum.mit.edu/150/?p=190#comment-109 [...] brother Stan and his college friend Harlan Anderson. The trio were funded by venture capital firm American Research and Development Corporation to the tune of $75,000 (£47,000) which Olsen claimed lasted the company for eight years.On the [...]

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