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Tech-Business Divide - A Call To Arms

Seeing Both Sides

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. Recently, Disney was seen scoping out space in Kendall Square to set up a research lab.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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RelayRides, which also provides $1 million-per-incident in insurance for car owners, is dealing with a case in Massachusetts that might have a sobering effect on its operations. A woman in Massachusetts rented her vehicle to a RelayRides customer, who was killed in an accident after hitting another car. Advertisement.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Personalization Remains An Open Problem

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Better Personal Advertising. First up today was Michael Greenberg presenting Better Personal Advertising. Nwenna Kai then presented Food Is Our Medicine Vision , an online training concept through which she wants to teach community leaders how to create healthier living concepts like organic gardens, etc. in urban areas.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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IPO Anxiety - East Coast Version (part 2: NY)

Seeing Both Sides

Yesterday, I analyzed the Massachusetts IPO ecosystem. The chart below is lifted from the Business Insider list, but I also cross-checked with AlwaysOn, Inc’s various lists and input from local members of the entrepreneurial community. Today, I look at NY. . Estimated Market Value (mn). Estimated 2010 Revenue. TheLadders.com.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. She has a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. She has a masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.