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Subject: Bob Metcalfe lecture and webcast, Feb 11th<br>
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<b>Lecture</b>: It's easy to start a small company, it's hard to make a
big one<br>
<b>Date:</b> Feb 11, 2005<br>
<b>Location:</b> MIT E51-325 or online at<b>
<a href="http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february" eudora="autourl">http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february</a></b><br><br>
The next CMI Distinguished Lecture will take place at 11.30am Eastern Standard Time on Friday 11 February 2005, when two very experienced entrepreneurs will be giving their views on the significant challenges of growing a start-up business into a larger company, and how to overcome the barriers to growth.<br><br>
Our speakers, Hermann Hauser and Bob Metcalfe are well-known and successful entrepreneurs who both have experience of turning scientific advances into real-world technology products, and have seen businesses they founded grow into large organizations.<br>
<b>Logistics</b><br>
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</b>This Distinguished Lecture will be truly interactive: Hermann Hauser will be speaking from a lecture theatre at the Judge Institute of Management in Cambridge, while Bob Metcalfe will be talking from the MIT Sloan School of Management. They, and the audiences in both locations, will meet by live video-link for the talk, and for the question-and-answer session that follows it. The talk will be also be webcast live.<br><br>
The lecture starts promptly at 11.30am local time for audience members at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts.<br><br>
<b>Webcast Information</b><br>
The lecture is being<b> broadcast live via the world wide web,</b> starting promptly at 4.30pm Greenwich Mean Time (11.30am Eastern Standard Time) on Friday 11th February. The address for the live webcast is<b> <a href="http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february" eudora="autourl">http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february</a></b><br><br>
The lecture concludes with an interactive question and answer session. As a member of the online audience, you can also participate in this. When you log on to the website, you will see a link to a form that allows you to submit a question. Our speakers will answer as many questions as possible, from both the actual and virtual audiences, in the time available.<br><br>
<b>Please note:</b> To view the live webcast you will need either Real Media Player or Windows Media Player. Visit the webcast page<b> <a href="http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february/" eudora="autourl">http://cmi.streamuk.com/11february/</a></b> in advance and follow the link to the "check" page to make sure you have one of these plug-ins.<br><br>
<b>More about the speakers</b>:<br><br>
Hermann was an influential figure in the fledgling personal computer industry in the UK during the 1980s, and companies he has founded or co-founded include Acorn Computers, and Virata Corporation (now part of Conexant), which went from a 1990s start-up to a leading supplier of silicon chips for digital subscriber line (DSL) modems. He also co-founded venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners where he now oversees a range of early- and later-stage developing technology companies.<br><br>
Dr Robert (Bob) Metcalfe began his career as an engineer-scientist, and was working as a researcher for Xerox when he invented Ethernet, the local-area networking (LAN) standard on which he shares four patents. In 2003, Ethernets 20th year, 184 million new Ethernet connections were shipped for $12.5 billion. Bob subsequently founded 3Com Corporation, the billion-dollar networking company. As well as serving on the board of several companies, Bob is now a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners in Boston, Massachusetts, and specialises in Boston-based information technology start-ups.<br><br>
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</pre>Kim Durand<br>
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