I am at AlphaLab this morning, and I will try to get a short blurb off on each presenting company – looks like a great set of companies and nice audience.
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Project Olympus Focus #4 – Crono
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
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. And finally…
crono – This project originated with Manuela Veloso, a professor in the School [...]
Project Olympus Focus #3 – BeaconSys
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
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 third…
Assistive Mobile Technologies (BeaconSys) – This is a project that originates with faculty [...]
Project Olympus Focus #2 – POW!
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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 second…
POW! – This project originates with Mor Harchol-Balter, faculty member in the Computer [...]
Project Olympus Focus #1 – SPIRAL
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
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 [...]
Middlemen/Brokers – Part II
Friday, March 6th, 2009
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 [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – Sonya Labs
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Last up today is Sonya Labs, the creation of Rodrigo Guzman, Nathan Collins, and Walter Chen. These three Pittsburgh imports are creating the “Google of legal research.”
The legal profession today uses LexisNexis and Westlaw to find legal information to buld cases, but these resources are old-school, mostly manually based sources of legal information. SonyaLabs is [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – Skill-Life
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Founder Felix Lloyd used to be a school teacher in Washington DC, and he hopes his startup, Skill-Life, willl be able to help school-aged children learn about personal finances. He likens his idea to “SIMS meets Quicken.”
Felix is a great salesman, and his entertaining walk through the Skill-Life online virtual world, Cents City, showed off [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – Game Huddle
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Game Huddle is the creation of a couple avid gamers, John Carson and Tyler Ewing, likened to “eHarmony meets Facebook for gamers”.
The site provides a toolset for other big gamers that allow them to ply their passion in a social medium that gives them the ability to chooose who they play with, what news they [...]
AlphaLab Demo Day – crono (Skedit)
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Next up is crono, a CMU spinout of Jarun Ngamvirojcharoen, Liz Crawford, and Manuela Velloso. They have created an application that makes the process of scheduling meetings easier.
Currently, they don’t have a website (that I could find), and their alpha product only works in Google Calendar. They are targeting other polular calendar programs, such as [...]