Read the VentureBeat article about the successful Tribogenics seed round here.
09/29/2011
On October 20 I’ll be moderating a panel: Funding or Marketing: Fish and Bait? Learn more here .
09/21/2011
Look for industries managing large volumes of data; two excellent examples are education and healthcare….
09/21/2011
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.
07/21/2011
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 [...]
Published by the LA Business Journal by Joel Russell When Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul decided to organize a virtual town hall meeting last week, his campaign did it with video streaming technology from a Santa Monica startup called Vokle Inc. The Paul campaign was the latest in a string of Vokle success stories that [...]
06/20/2011
We reduced funding for academically talented students to enter science while we reduced general science and development funding. Meanwhile, our university students get more bang for their study buck, doing less work to earn higher grades. The loss of discipline has led to a population without the mathematical rigor to tackle quantitative analysis, so we [...]
05/25/2011
Hints can be found in the larger publishing industry, said Andrea Belz, president of Belz Commercialization Consulting Group. “The Amazon announcement is consistent with first-quarter results from trade associations showing that all publishers have seen a tremendous increase in sales volumes,” she told the E-Commerce Times. “The publishing industry is finally following in the footsteps [...]
03/18/2011
The Protestant Reformation shifted power from the Pope and priesthood to the lay leadership, empowered with newly available Bibles printed in local languages. Similarly, the Googleist Reformation represents the movement of power from advertising and marketing executives to the lowly customers, who suddenly have access to information generated by other users in the shared dialect [...]
02/16/2011
American immigration policy allows foreign investors who create jobs to apply for residency via the EB-5 visa. If it’s possible to accelerate job creation by revising immigration policy, might it be possible to create a patent policy that does the same? At a minimum, the USPTO should look to players in the small company ecosystem, [...]
