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...The only American in his dorm, “I learned how to survive by understanding other people very well”, he recalls, building an empathy in later life for what motivates people and how they think....
...Stanford ranks well for food and accommodation, “to the delight of executives who shudder at the thought of dorm dining from their college days”....
...At the same time there are all kinds of experiments in co-working spaces, dorm-style inns and smaller-scale hostels that make western cities feel somewhat sleepy....
...“That should be done by the venture capitalists and the people in their dorm rooms at Harvard. What you have to do is look after your existing customers....
...Eataly, the upmarket delicatessen chain which has its biggest store in New York’s Fifth Avenue, is due to list in Milan in the next 18 months....
...“In China, having hot water in your dorm is a real benefit,” notes Mr Hohman. Alongside international expansion, and possible competition with LinkedIn, Glassdoor has plenty more on its agenda....
...But Jassy told Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store, that when he first wrote the vision statement for the new operation, “we tried to imagine a student in a dorm room who would have at his or her...
...That’s how Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook from dorm-room to the world’s most popular internet service in just six years. So what makes Silicon Valley so good at scale-ups?...
...Like many technology entrepreneurs before and since, the teenage Mr Dell forged his company in his college dorm room, dropping out to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions....
...It will also groom a corps with unique experience of the world’s newest superpower....
...Also because, after scaling a website in a dorm room to a platform connecting a billion people in 196 countries through revolutionary high-efficiency auto-cooling datacenters, you guys will probably never...
...He and his close allies own 57 per cent of the company, guaranteeing that he will be able to run Facebook more like the mission-driven public trust he envisioned in his Harvard dorm room eight years ago...
...firm whose partner, Jim Breyer, sits on the Facebook board, is set to reap more than $9bn from an investment of just $12.7m it made in 2005, when Facebook was just a year and half beyond its university dorm...
...filling the company with foreign-educated PhD graduates who will no longer tolerate the old battery-chicken approach to research, in which teams worked ceaselessly for weeks, bedding down in simple company dorms...
...PlayStation 3D Display I liked the concept of the PlayStation 3D Display as a dorm-room monitor and television substitute for video gamers when it was first unveiled, but it turns out to be a disappointment...
...Bright yellow nets were installed around each high-rise dorm building, to catch anyone falling off, while panels of psychologists and other experts were drafted in to explain the suicides....
...When I arrive at Barney Greengrass, the Upper West Side family delicatessen whose former owner Moe Greengrass was known as The Sturgeon King, there is no sign of Howard Schultz near the long counter of cured...
...While many Facebook employees are just a few years past decorating their college dorm rooms, the seven-year old company is now renovating a new 9-building, 57-acre campus it plans to move into this summer...
...The SEC lawsuit has damaged the image of Mr Dell, who founded the company in his college dorm in 1984 and became a business icon when his pioneering direct sales approach took his company to the top of the...
...“I’m moving into a dorm and we decided there wasn’t any point in getting one,” she explains....
...The US convenience food market is dominated by frozen meals, restaurant “take out” and gourmet offerings from the supermarket delicatessen counter, rather than fresh ready meals....
...But today most students prefer a laptop for everyday use, and perhaps an all-in-one machine for the dorm along with a multi-function printer, copier and scanner....
...But it remains committed to pre-packing its food rather than making it at a counter in front of the customer, in the model of the archetypal New York delicatessen....
...Projects launched by a student energy club at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – such as a dorm electricity conservation competition and converting waste vegetable oil into bio-diesel to power the...
...After all, Mr Zuckerberg founded the social networking site just five years ago in his Harvard dorm. Until 2006, only high school and college students could join....
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