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Message: Re: When Silicon Leaves the Valley

One would think the author of this piece would be interested in a follow-up featuring POET and whatever else is appropriate. Maybe March 2014 was not the right time, but perhaps now. A call by Ajit with an offer of a complete tour, etc, etc. Of course, Ajit and team may have too much pride to reach out to the author (or it could be that reaching out like that is just not the way POET corporate culture now stands). So, perhaps some of our techies could do the reaching out to the authora and then the inquiry could come from the author to the company.

I see that Rainer tried to make people who read the article and, of course, the publisher and author, aware of POET back when this piece came out, but having Ajit on board is a whole different story, as the author would almost certainly have to take POET's work seriously.

I don't think the Canadian-UCONN roots and connections of POET are something that catches the eye of tech writers, especially US tech writers. Cal Tech, MIT, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Stanford, Harvard and other Ivies, those are the names with instant attraction. UCONN, not so much (trust me, half the people in the United States think UCONN is located in Canada, especially Sgt. Preston fans!). But with a guy like Ajit as co-chairman, the UCONN "stigma" is trumped.

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