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Roberts, Edward Baer was born on November 18, 1935 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nathan and Edna (Podradchik) Roberts.
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The ingredients for success in starting and developing a technology-based company aren't obvious. Why, for example, did Digital Equipment Corporation succeed--and indeed become one of the most successful high-tech corporations in the world--while dozens of other companies with similar beginnings fail? It is a question that demands careful consideration by anyone setting up a new company or who is interested in starting one. In Entrepreneurs in High Technology, Edward Roberts, a Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, offers entrepreneurs a goldmine of information on starting, financing, and expanding a high-tech firm. His book reveals the results of research conducted over twenty-five years on several hundred high-tech firms, and it reflects the insights of the author's own first-hand experience as a company founder, director, and venture capitalist. Focusing on firms in the Greater Boston area--many of which have had technological links with MIT--Roberts traces the origins and the evolution of the high-technology failures and successes. He examines the work experience and family backgrounds of successful technical entrepreneurs, their sources of funding, and the ways they respond to the challenge of business growth. He compares the track records of firms with multi-founder teams and firms with individual founders, contrasts the performance of consulting firms and research-and-development contractors against companies that start out with a product, identifies the factors that limit an enterprise's ability to raise outside capital, and explores the critical influence of marketing orientation on successful companies. In a penetrating analysis of highly successful ventures, the author reveals the importance of strategically transforming the company to a market-oriented focus, and he examines the widespread tendency, even among the most successful high-tech firms, to displace the founder before the company achieves "super-success." For anyone planning to start a technology-based enterprise, Entrepreneurs in High Technology is essential reading--an invaluable preview of the financial, organizational, and marketing issues that confront every new high-tech venture. For business and technology watchers, it is an informative account of the promise and the perils entailed in bringing innovative ideas to the marketplace.
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Roberts, Edward Baer was born on November 18, 1935 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nathan and Edna (Podradchik) Roberts.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958; Master of Science in Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962.
Founding member system dynamics program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1958-1984;
instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959-1961;
assistant professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961-1965;
associate professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965-1970;
professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1970;
David Sarnoff professor management of technical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1974;
associate director research program on management of science and technical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963-1973;
chairman technical and health management group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973-1988;
chairman management of technical and innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1988;
chairman center for entrepreneurship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992-1994, 97-;
co-director international center research management technical, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1993;
director management of technical program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980-1989;
co-chairman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since 1989. Co-founder, director Medical Information Technology, Inc., Westwood, Massachusetts, since 1969. Co-founder, general partner Zero State Capital Group, since 1981.
Board directors Advanced Magnetics, Inc., Cambridge, Selfcare, Inc., Waltham, Pegasystems, Inc., Cambridge, High Point Sys., Inc., Cambridge, Internet Technologies China, Inc., Cambridge, Puerto Rico Restaurants, Andover, Massachusetts, In Touch Systems, Inc., Cambridge, Star Nex Inc., Wrentham, Massachusetts.
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute Management Science, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, TauKappa Alpha.
Son of Nathan (deceased) and Edna (Podradchik) R. Married Nancy Helen Rosenthal, June 14, 1959. Children: Valerie Jo Friedman, Mitchell Jonathan, Andrea Lynne.