In the mid-1990s Kam and a partner started a mutual fund called Firsthand Funds.
Kam's partner invested in his area of knowledge, information technology, while Kam stuck to medical products.
The jury is out on whether Kam's novel approach can work over the long term.
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While working as a barber, he befriended a skinny local teen-ager named Wong Kam-ming.
Kam says the surgeons were comfortable with Novoste's startup risks because they had used the company's technology.
Yes, I would say that, except for Kam's previous successes as an entrepreneur and a fund manager.
Kam believes Boston Scientific has corrected the manufacturing problem and will continue to dominate the stent market.
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Ken Kam is the CEO of Marketocracy.com, an online stock picking community that tracks the best performing investors.
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Kam Air sponsors teams in volleyball, football, cricket and buzkashi (literally, goat grabbing), a national sport akin to polo.
In January 2005, without giving any reason, the ministry of transport revoked Kam Air's license to fly to Istanbul.
The crash has made it difficult for Kam Air to get landing approval from foreign governments, key to expansion.
For those 100, 000 or so patients in the U.S., Kam says Tysabri can greatly improve their quality of life.
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Rick Kam is president and co-founder of ID Experts, a provider of data breach prevention and response solutions.
Kam says marketocracy.com was born of lessons learned in his two previous startups.
These facts, according to Kam, mean that there is no good reason to withhold Tysabri from this group of patients.
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Democratic consultant Kam Kuwata, who ran Ms. Feinstein's Senate campaigns, said she hadn't made a decision about entering the race.
Here are a few recent comments from Randy on MasterCard that were sent to me by Ken Kam, founder of Marketocracy.
"They do not ask airlines from America or Europe for all this information, " grumbles Feda Mohammad Fedawi, Kam Air's vice president.
"I am not very disappointed because these things do happen, " said Wong Kam-yung, who bought SMIC shares in the public offering.
Lai Kam-tong at the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management says that accountants' salaries are rising by 14% a year.
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At Drexel University in Philadelphia, for instance, an engineer named Moshe Kam tested handwriting examiners against members of the general public.
Firsthand's rapid rise and fall made Kam a convert to low-risk investing.
Novoste went public in the early 1990s and made Kam a millionaire.
Before Marketocracy, Kam was the founder and chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a firm he sold right before the 2000-2002 bear market.
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