This winter, ABC’s “Private Practice” featured the da Vinci, a surgical robot made by Sunnyvale company Intuitive Surgical. Although ABC asked to use the product, companies pay more than a billion dollars each year for product placement.
After seven years of planning and debate, Redwood City leaders approved plans to develop a three-block radius downtown, including up to 2,500 housing units and retail, office space and hotel rooms.
The weather did not live up to the hype in San Francisco early Saturday morning. A crowd of 50 formed at Twin Peaks, one of the city’s highest points, but the sky was clear and the pavement was dry at 1:30 a.m.
Founders of companies like Google, Yahoo! and LinkedIn attended Stanford University. Friday at Stanford, venture capitalists met with student entrepreneurs in a speed-dating format. Was the next big startup there?
Google, Yahoo!, Cisco and HP, all got their start at Stanford University, but what many people don’t know is that Stanford owns the rights to any technology innovation created using the university’s resources.
Burt Herman, founder of Hacks/Hackers, urged business people, technologist and journalists to collaborate on new media solutions at a Stanford Entrepreneurship Week event.
Annie Loya, 26, organized East Palo Alto youth to protest a dangerous waste handling plant in 2007. Now, she’s working with city officials to create a land-use map, ensuring homes won’t go on the toxic site.
New East Palo Alto map lays out vision for development in the Four Corners and Ravenswood neighborhoods through the next decade in hopes it will attract businesses.
Bill Gross, founder of Southern California company Idealab, kicked off Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Week with advice for student entrepreneurs and info about his new solar energy firm, eSolar.
