Archive for April, 2008

Innovative Digs

Leroy Gets A New Harley

From here:
Google App Engine enables developers to build their web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google’s own apps. Advertised as ” Easy to start, easy to scale,” it’s Google’s version of the Cloud, more or less, and more or less in competition with what Amazon has to offer. Techcrunch is all [...]

In yesterday’s Burton D. Morgan Business Plan competition undergrad division, three of the five teams had members who were either current or former students of mine [ENTR200].
John Mullen[who also won the undergrad division of the recent elevator pitch contest - $2,000] along with AJ and two other engineers won the whole enchilada [$20,000 [...]

Creator of OLPC XO On Green

The video embedded below [from here] is to a 6 minutes clip by Mary Lou Jepsen, the Chief Technology Officer behind the OLPC project, on how it is really green. Well worth the six minutes. Hank

Algae-based Biofuels

There is a different kind of effort toward getting off the USA fixation on oil-based energy - oil from algae. See the video below for more info [video from www.scribemedia.org here:] And companies are starting to spring up to take advantage of this technology, and a few of them are publicly traded, although Bulletin [...]

At Demo 2008, the presentation of the Pulse Smartpen from Livescribe won one of the coveted DemoGod awards. Their blurb on the Demo 2008 page [here] states:
Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen is a computer in a pen that records and links audio to what users write on paper. Users can tap on their notes to replay [...]

Understanding Engineers - Take One Two engineering students were walking across a university campus when onesaid, “Where did you get such a great bike?” The second engineer replied, “Well, I was walking along yesterday, mindingmy own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it tothe ground, took off all her clothes [...]

Negotiating a Termsheet

This entire blog is from vator.tv here:
by Reena A Jadhav submitted March 28, 2008
Ted Wang, a partner with the Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West and a leading intellectual property  attorney, talks term sheets with Vator.tv contributor Reena Jadhav of IvyBrain.
Entrepreneurs looking for insights from the other side of the table will find [...]