Almost by definition startups need to be, and usually are, disruptive. I met a company the other day that was innovative in so many ways. Their product was new and fresh and it was a real disrupter in the staid and stuffy robotics industry. Rather than come at the industry from the heavy, expensive, and [...]
I wrote recently about the rise of what I call agile hardware and this is a trend and industry that continue to fascinate me. I am always on the lookout for startups and investments in this nascent industry.
One of the most fascinating aspects of agile hardware are the set of hardware accessories that work with [...]
It is a snowy day in Western PA, and the schools are closed and the kids are happy…
Last year, my venture capital firm came very close to making an investment in a neat little company in Wilmington, NC – New Potato Technologies (“…a name that raises more questions than it answers…” to quote the founder; [...]
I have been watching some of the activity out at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and I finally saw a tablet computer that I must have, one that will get me a base camp in the tablet revolution. It’s called the XOOM and it is made by Motorola.
I have written about tablets before, but have been [...]
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Well, now it’s official – Amazon has finally broken a tiny crack in the tough outer shell of their Kindle, a nearly microscopic one… the BIG news about allowing lending your Kindle eBooks from one device to another is official.
The upshot is that I can now choose to make the eBooks that I [...]
I am presenting at a new media conference in Columbia, MO, in March. The organizer teaches a class in entrepreneurship, and he asked me how my firm thinks about competitors to the portfolio companies we invest in.
The only way to understand competition is to read as much as you can and stay on top of [...]
In the past week, I attended two events where I had to evaluate startup pitches delivered to investors: a boot camp for the upcoming 3RVF conference in Pittsburgh, and the interim demo day at AlphaLab. Both events were dry-run practice sessions so that presenting companies could be more polished when they were actually on the [...]