Staying Productive While Staying Active
How do you stay fit with a workaholic-like schedule that keeps you sitting most of the day? Some innovators have the answer. [...]
My Smartphone Ate My Fitbit
In this week's posting on Forbes.com I talk about how smartphones are subsuming capabilities that are currently provided as peripherals--and what that [...]
The Three Laws of Disruption
In this week's blog post on Forbes.com I talk about the importance of product-market fit. You can find the full posting here.
My Homage to Wrigley Field
In the summer of 1978, when I was 15 years old and didn't even have a driver's license, I sold [...]
Leadership is Situational, Integrity is Not.
For this month's post on Tech Cocktail I talk about leadership and ethics.
How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round
Suppose your company has 8 million shares outstanding and you’re fortunate enough to be able to raise $4 million at [...]
What Does an Entrepreneur-in-Residence Do?
Many people are fascinated by this question, and in my monthly post on Tech Cocktail, I've taken a crack at answering [...]
May The Forest Be With You: Using Whole Trees In Building Construction
In this post on Forbes.com I talk about a really cool and innovative company out of Madison, Wisconsin that uses whole trees in building [...]
Staying Productive While Staying Active
How do you stay fit with a workaholic-like schedule that keeps you sitting most of the day? Some [...]
My Smartphone Ate My Fitbit
In this week's posting on Forbes.com I talk about how smartphones are subsuming capabilities that are currently provided [...]
The Three Laws of Disruption
In this week's blog post on Forbes.com I talk about the importance of product-market fit. You can find [...]
A Bias for Action
The way I see it, the best entrepreneurs are decisive and have a penchant for action. In a startup, time is your most precious commodity, [...]
Convertible Equity–An Idea Whose Time Has Come
1932 Nash Advanced Eight Convertible Sedan (Photo credit: aldenjewell) In my last company, Advanced Diamond Technologies, there was a time between equity financing [...]
Impedance Mismatch
(Photo credit: nerovivo) I’ve written and talked about the cultural differences between entrepreneurs and career researchers. Lately I’ve discovered a new one: Scientists: [...]
Testimony from House Review of Innovation Corps Program
Earlier today I got the opportunity to provide witness testimony for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Science [...]
2012 Illinois Nanotechnology Report
Illinois Partners is proud to have contributed to the Illinois Nanotechnology Report, a work spearheaded by the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition. The actual report [...]
Principle Three: Leverage Private Money
Continuing with the Nine Guiding Principles, onto Principle Three. Image via Wikipedia Everyone knows that raising private capital to finance a startup is [...]