Hewlett-Packard / Digital Equipment Corporation / Thermo Electron / Mayfield Ventures / Genentech / Lotus Development Corporation / VisiCorp / Akamai / Mitsubishi / IBM / Southwest Airlines / Western Union / General Motors / 3Com / Raytheon / Hitachi / Toshiba / Harvard Business School Press / Kleiner Perkins / Intel / Microsoft / /
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Japan / United Kingdom / United States / /
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GBP / USD / /
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Patent Filing / /
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BUILDING NEW HIGH TECH COMPANIES What / MIT campus / IBM’s PC headquarters / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / /
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venture capital industry / commodity product / airline / software program / venture capital / Internet industry / microcomputer technology / high-tech / technology-based businesses / electricity / average technology / gas / software / biotechnology industry / electronics / software industry / technology-based products / /
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East Coast / West Coast / /
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology / New York State Legislature / MIT Entrepreneurship Center / Harvard Business School / MIT’s Technology Licensing Office / MIT / Harvard / White House / Sloan School / /
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Tesla / Karl Taylor Compton / Diana / Bob Swanson / Michael Porter / Bill Gates / Charles T. Main / D. Mark Cunningham / Ed Roberts / Bob Noyce / Jim Utterback / Andy Grove / Alexander Graham Bell / Robert Fulton / Napoleon / Gordon Moore / Ken Morse / Mitch Kapor / Thomas Edison / /
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president / entrepreneur / technologist / Professor / solitary technologist / administrative assistant / Director Preston Associate / market leader / Dean / Princess / Prince / physicist / chairman / young entrepreneur / Porter / one of the board members / famous physicist / /
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PC / /
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Florida / Massachusetts / /
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Scientific American / /
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East Coast / West Coast / Northern California / /
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biotechnology / good technology / microcomputer technology / 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology / integrated circuit / /
SUCCESS FACTORS IN TECHNOLOGY-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP John T. Preston Associate Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center Originally a Transcript of a Lecture Delivered in Tokyo in 1997 Updated August 2001