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Environmentalists on one side of the Saltworks development debate want to restore the site to bay wetlands. Others insists the community and environment would benefit more from smart-growth housing.
Leaders of The Foundry, a Menlo Park incubator, tell a Stanford crowd how they’ve been able to consistently identify and develop medical device startups. They have founded and financed 10 medical device companies.
Author and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki closed Stanford’s E-Week with advice to student entrepreneurs: great products are “deep, intelligent, complete, empowering and elegant.”
Conceptus, Inc., the Mountain View company that makes a permanent birth control product, reported lower-than-expected earnings in 2010 but has an optimistic outlook for the future.
Speaking in front of a full house Tuesday, LinkedIn founder Konstantin Guericke told Stanford students about founding his company in 2002 and how it became a leading site in a crowded field of social media.
At Entrepreneurship in the Global Marketplace, an event during Stanford Entrepreneurship Week, speakers all focused on the emerging free market in one country: China.
The salt marsh harvest mouse and the California clapper rail are both endangered species living near East Palo Alto’s Cooley Landing. Their presence may slow plans to turn the vacant property into a park.
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?
Burt Herman, founder of Hacks/Hackers, urged business people, technologist and journalists to collaborate on new media solutions at a Stanford Entrepreneurship Week event.