Stanford and Google

WSJ 8/23/04 Why Stanford Is Celebrating The Google IPO
http://www.matr.net/article-11816.html
http://www.vocaboly.com/forums/ftopic903.html

Stanford University won three ways by betting on Google Inc. Not only did the California school have the smarts to admit the company's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, into its computer-science doctoral program, turning the pair into a magnet to draw the best and the brightest, but the university put its money behind their venture.

USA Today 5/13/04 Google shows how schools turn research into big bucks
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2004-05-13-stanford_x.htm
Stanford University's Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
http://otl.stanford.edu/about/index.html