business

Just sort of a brainstorm here, following up on some of my relatively more youthful attempts to outline what this is all about: Draft Enterprise Model The Practice of Theory The other day I jotted down a few points — trying to distill the underlying mission of this amorphous enterprise. It has a few different [...]

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Boston’s case illustrates the difficulty you’d have establishing a new startup hub this late in the game. If you wanted to create a startup hub by reproducing the way existing ones happened, the way to do it would be to establish a first-rate research university in a place so nice that rich people wanted to live there. [...]

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Perspective: April 25, 1997

by Brian on 03-03-2009

in civics,economics

FP Passport reminds us a bit about what was happening in the world the last time the stock market was this low. I have a pretty good frame of reference for that time: I just turned 19, I was finishing high school and started university in 1997. One big difference between then and now is how we use computers. [...]

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