Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants: The Very Best Way to Fund Your Business
Raising venture capital or angel financing are the sought-after ways [...]
Solar Energy Is Heating Up Tech — Even When The Sun Goes Down
In this guest post on Forbes.com, I talk about a [...]
My Homage to Wrigley Field
In the summer of 1978, when I was 15 years [...]
Leadership is Situational, Integrity is Not.
For this month's post on Tech Cocktail I talk about [...]
How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round
Suppose your company has 8 million shares outstanding and you’re [...]
What Does an Entrepreneur-in-Residence Do?
Many people are fascinated by this question, and in my monthly [...]
Watch Out for Convertible Notes
Here is my latest post on Tech Cocktail about the hazards of [...]
Report on the White House Lab-to-Market Summit
On May 20, 2013 I was honored to be an [...]
Prenups for Startups: How to Structure Founding Teams
One of the people in my networking group in Chicago [...]
Winning Business Plan Competitions is Not a Business Model
Is it me or are there business plan competitions on [...]
On Being Accountable
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about [...]
Strike While the Iron is Hot
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk [...]
10 Considerations When Licensing a Technology
End User License Agreement (Photo credit: Brett L.) [...]
Nanotech Takes It On The Chin
English: Nanoparticle and nanotechnology - CILAS (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [...]
The Best Advice I Ever Got
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about [...]
100% Of The Time It’s 90% Mental
I love the week between Christmas and New Year’s as [...]
Startup Founders: You Need More Money Than You Think
Startups go out of business for only one reason. That [...]
A Bias for Action
The way I see it, the best entrepreneurs are decisive [...]
Convertible Equity–An Idea Whose Time Has Come
1932 Nash Advanced Eight Convertible Sedan (Photo credit: aldenjewell) [...]
Impedance Mismatch
(Photo credit: nerovivo) I’ve written and talked about [...]
Testimony from House Review of Innovation Corps Program
Earlier today I got the opportunity to provide witness testimony [...]
2012 Illinois Nanotechnology Report
Illinois Partners is proud to have contributed to the Illinois [...]
Principle Three: Leverage Private Money
Continuing with the Nine Guiding Principles, onto Principle Three. [...]
Licensing Technologies from Universities
A common way for startups to get going is by [...]