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Posted in Innovation, Non-Compete Agreements on Feb 21st, 2012
Here, we’ll look at some of the specific conditions that were primary enablers for Facebook and other major technology companies, and how they relate to Boston. The listed order of the conditions tends to be consistent with Facebook’s chronology, but otherwise, the order or length of discussion is not meant to indicate any particular meaning. [...]
Posted in Innovation, Non-Compete Agreements on Jul 8th, 2011
Response to: Facebook ‘Shock’ Has Boston Firms Searching for Next Zuckerberg.[1] Anyone, who is truly serious about “searching” for the next Facebook in the greater Boston area, first has to be serious about getting rid of non-compete agreements in Massachusetts. Not doing so, is to ignore the data and simply to repeat the same mistakes. [...]
Posted in Innovation, Non-Compete Agreements on Mar 16th, 2011
Alternate Title: Google and Facebook — Number of Employees and Annual Revenues Addendum to: Would DEC Still Exist if Non-Competes Didn’t? The data presented below was collected while preparing the previous post: Would DEC still Exist If Non-Competes Didn’t? That post was already getting long, and this data seemed to distract from the previous post’s [...]
Posted in Innovation, Non-Compete Agreements on Mar 14th, 2011
This question is particularly relevant to the Boston area technology sector because if Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) still existed it would be an anchor company in the area: an anchor company that would provide a foundation for the region’s business, technology, and culture; an anchor company that would provide a degree of stability, scale, international [...]
Posted in Innovation, Non-Compete Agreements on Feb 27th, 2010
The current issue of Business Week Magazine lists the Top Angels in Tech. BW presents this as the first annual ranking of top angel investors. The sub story is the impact that current and former Google employees are having as angel investors.