Tag Archives: Project Olympus

Tapping Into the Pittsburgh Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

A couple weeks back, I gave a presentation at McKinsey, the consulting firm where I used to work.  It was great to see and talk to some old friends whom I hadn’t seen in such a long time, and to meet the new faces – the highly talented core of consultants that McKinsey is so [...]

Project Olympus Focus #4 – Crono

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

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!

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

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 [...]

Calling All Startup CEOs!

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 [...]