The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup
One of these companies has developed something new, interesting, and economically useful.<p>The other company has great marketing.<p>One of them is playing a positive-sum game. The other is playing a zero-sum game: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game</a><p>I don't know that one of these really represents MIT and the other really represents Stanford, but I can tell you that the technology company is adding value to the world in a way that the marketing company is not.