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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just to prove that this blog is actually written by two separate people with their individual points of view, here’s a follow-up post to Alan’s Edible Robots post.
Alan’s hypothesis is that Pittsburgh’s technology sector is more heavily weighted toward research than commercialization, and that Pittsburgh’s startup community often seems to consist of researchers who think that a scientific breakthrough in itself is [...]
OK – don’t say I didn’t warn you about getting your dander up…
Pittsburgh is fortunate to have a couple resident journalists from Big Media who cover the local scene, and often get us “above the fold” – witness today’s front page article (below the fold) in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Pittsburgh Puts Robots to [...]