As I wrote in my post last week, this week I am going to highlight four technologies/teams at CMU that are looking to spinout to form a company, and are looking for a CEO. Project Olympus is helping to facilitate matches. Up first…
SPIRAL – This is a project originating in the Electrical and Computing Engineering [...]
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The good folks over at Project Olympus, where I am an advisor, have asked me to post about a very interesting aspect of the work they are doing: matching potential CEO candidates with faculty/research students who have promising research projects or technologies that are ready to be spun-out into nascent businesses.
They are going to organize [...]
I am plugging a local conference put on by Young Inventors International (YII) coming up in April – and in particular,one of the events at this conference: the BRAINBUZZ. One of our blog authors, Aaron Tainter, will be speaking on a panel at the conference and will be taking part in the BrainBuzz – and [...]
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The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and attracts leading digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs. The event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology.
I attended this conference this week and sat in on countless intriguing panels, met many interesting people, ate at every BBQ [...]
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I wrote a “Rules Post” a few weeks back recommending that entrepreneurs not use middlemen/brokers to fund their startups – and that has generated a few private comments via email. First of all, just to be specific, the rules are meant to be humorous, and this rule was specifically about brokers who are blatantly only [...]