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State helping to shape US efforts to digitize health records for all
Almost 50 years ago, a Harvard-educated president gave voice to a lofty ambition: to send men to the moon before the end of the 1960s. A collection of brainiacs at MIT and Raytheon designed and built the electronic navigation system that safely guided six Apollo spacecraft to the lunar surface.
Web start-up takes entrepreneur's idea and runs with it
Last June, Leah Busque quit her job at IBM . It was the first job she’d had since graduating from college in 2001, and she was a software developer on the fast track there.
Desks, PCs, patents up for grabs as more businesses close down
Throughout the spring, a date loomed in Gregg Favalora’s mind: April 24. Shutdown day. If his Bedford company, Actuality Medical Inc., couldn’t find a new investor willing to fund the continued development of its cutting-edge software to assist surgeons with cancer treatment, that Friday would be the last day of its existence.
Start-ups stifled by noncompetes
In mid-2008, Nabeel Hyatt was hoping to turbo-charge his team at Conduit Labs Inc., a developer of Internet-based games in Cambridge, by hiring an experienced 3-D artist who was working at Turbine Inc.
Where the jobs are in anxious times
When times are good, Boston's executive recruiters and placement specialists chase skilled candidates like greyhounds after a rabbit. But when the economy turns, suddenly it's the candidates who pursue recruiters, calling and e-mailing in the hopes of hearing first about a position that just materialized, or getting a status update on that interview they had a few weeks back.
Lexington-based VistaPrint Ltd.'s formula: Offer free business cards, then profit on reorders
At a meeting in 1999, Gwyn Jones pitched what he thought was a winning idea to the CEO of his Internet printing company: Why not offer first-time customers a box of 250 business cards, custom-printed just for them? And what if the business cards were free?
This June, let ideas bust out all over
If you want to understand real economic pain - and how it is alleviated - you have to rewind the tape a little more than two centuries.
Shoebuy tiptoes its way to success online
The company that Scott Savitz and Craig Starble formed 10 years ago was, well, a classic 1999-era start-up. The pair ditched their high-paying jobs in financial services to start a website that sold shoes. They snatched the domain Shoebuy.com and rented 200 square feet of office space in Brookline. The crux of the idea was that they would own no ...
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