Come learn about intellectual property and licensing, including managing risks and crafting a reasonable deal. This Licensing Executives Society course is coming to Los Angeles for the first time! Register here.
Today’s college students enter college unprepared for a mathematical education. They work less than their counterparts of a previous generation and yet earn inflated grades. Then they hit the marketplace and discover that they can’t repay their loans because they are part of a great unemployed population. In the meantime, our science and technology jobs are filled by the graduate students we import and train at our expense…. Read more on Tech Investor News.
If your friendly sock puppet is made of recyclable materials, use it now to write a check! The Internet boom is back, but in an interesting new-millennium twist, it is followed closely by the clean technology sector…. Read more on World News.
The recession created new demand for higher education, demand that can be met more economically, thanks to improved broadband access and decreased costs in delivering Internet services. Remarkably, the pricing of higher education has remained flat despite these advances — presumably reacting more to the increased demand than the decreased production costs…. Read more at Help Us Educate.
Tribogenics has raised a new $2.5 million round of funding to commercialize its low-cost x-ray technology, the startup announced today. The x-ray technology, created by scientists at UCLA, enables low-cost x-rays on a variety of platforms, including scientific instruments and security screening and medical devices…. Read the article at VentureBeat.
I moderated a panel for the Los Angeles County Tech Week: “Funding or Marketing: Fish and Bait?” This event included venture capitalists, PR expertise in pre-IPO companies, and other marketing experts…. Learn more about LA County Tech Week.
Look for industries managing large volumes of data; two excellent examples are education and healthcare, where the users (students and patients) are really extensive data sets collected over a long period of time. One opportunity lies in becoming the tool to manage and aggregate the data, and another lies in the ability to synthesize and distill enormous data sets…. Read more at E-Commerce Times.
Even an engaged board may find that it is unprepared to face significant operational problems, since the most defensive management team often has good reason to be concerned. Because of this, a board needs to be prepared with a few high-level, penetrating questions to identify and mitigate risks. Which actions are appropriate for an activist board seeking to manage a company through a challenging environment? Read more at Corporate Compliance Insights.
The decline of the space program marks a loss in many related fields, as research and development funding associated with the Space Race led to many stunning technology successes in the U.S., including digital image processing used in MRIs, miniature electronics for pacemakers, memory foam mattresses and air bags for cars. The original Internet was born from defense funding… Read more at World News.
Andrea Belz said, “It’s very hard to get people to pay for things they’re used to getting for free…. Very early on, companies need to decide on either an advertising or a subscription model. You have to provide a whole lot of value to justify subscriptions….” Read more in the LA Business Journal.
