Abstract:
When it came time to invite a representative company to attend President Bush's signing of a bill last December authorizing $3.7 billion in federal spending on nanotechnology over the next four years, a three-year-old Silicon Valley company named Nanosys got the call. It is easy to see why. Painstakingly assembled by experienced entrepreneurs, famous academic researchers and big-name venture capitalists who know how to dazzle Wall Street, Nanosys is the epitome of a start-up shooting for business glory.