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Book: Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

Feld Thoughts

Rather than watch the news tonight, I encourage you to pick up a copy of Alan Lightman’s book Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine. He’s been foundational at MIT around all of their creative writing endeavors and is currently Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Startups at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA

Feld Thoughts

I lived at ADP at 351 Massachusetts Avenue for four years as an undergraduate at MIT. If you should be on the ADP entrepreneur list, please comment on this blog and add your name for posterity (and Google searches). Yup – same bar – this was 1990-ish – and it was at 321 Massachusetts Avenue. It smells like ADP.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. Age 18 is worried about college and that in itself is a sizable market. Discuss.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Healthcare Reform. Yes, really.

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Tech-Business Divide - A Call To Arms

Seeing Both Sides

It was a call to arms for all who want Massachusetts to remain a competitive environment for entrepreneurs to build ventures that change the world. Interestingly, most of these companies did not even exist 30 years ago — they grew out of our start-up ecosystem that is so central to Massachusetts’ economy.

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Small business and startups: 5 great self-service HR resources

crowdSPRING Blog

On these sites an employer can post openings and search for a good match with relative ease and at a low cost. Tow other good online resources are Ceridian and HireRight.com both of which can help you to manage the search and the screening process. Payroll and record keeping.

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Letter to Carmen Ortiz about Aaron Swartz

Andrew Payne

United States Attorney for Massachusetts. The use of Secret Service resources, the home search warrant, the discovery refusal to provide raw hard drive images, the superseding indictment, and the reported plea negotiations & constraints; these all signal that Swartz’s acts were extremely serious, worthy of government resources.