FEATURE
Putting Dollars to Dreams
August 1, 2010 | Minneapolis Star Tribune
For anyone thinking of starting a health care company in Minnesota, one of the first doors to knock on is Pete McNerney's. McNerney is the kind of person whose decisions can make, and perhaps break, entrepreneurial dreams, co-founder of a venture fund that has raised $375 million to invest in biotech, drug and medical-technology companies nationwide.
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IBM Research Scientists Go their Own Way
July 30, 2010 | San Francisco Chronicle
IBM green-lights proposals from researchers at the lab because some of the gambles can spawn significant business. Since the 1990s, advances in how data are stored, managed and analyzed have helped generate millions of dollars in sales. Yet even lab directors concede that chances are slim that any one breakthrough will make a sizable addition to IBM's almost $100 billion in annual revenue.
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Why Software Startups Decide to Patent ... or Not
July 28, 2010 | Radar O'Reilly
Berkeley Patent Survey finds first-mover advantage trumps patents. Two-thirds of the approximately 700 software entrepreneurs who participated in the survey report that they neither have nor are seeking patents for innovations embodied in their products and services. These entrepreneurs rate patents as the least important mechanism for attaining competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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