Know When It’s Time to Go
In this article for Forbes.com I shared a deeply personal experience about the decision I made to step down from a company [...]
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 of enabling your startup dream. The process of raising venture capital is [...]
Solar Energy Is Heating Up Tech — Even When The Sun Goes Down
In this guest post on Forbes.com, I talk about a recently announced scientific breakthrough from Harvard and MIT--and the impediments toward bringing [...]
Winning Business Plan Competitions is Not a Business Model
Is it me or are there business plan competitions on every street corner in every town these days? I am [...]
On Being Accountable
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about being accountable. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) See: http://tech.co/10-words-20-letters-being-accountable-2013-05 Neil Kane
Strike While the Iron is Hot
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about the importance of taking advantage of unexpected situations and [...]
10 Considerations When Licensing a Technology
End User License Agreement (Photo credit: Brett L.) In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about [...]
Innovating A New Innovation Model
The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Laboratory is innovating in ways outside of battery research. Their model of a public-private [...]
Know When It’s Time to Go
In this article for Forbes.com I shared a deeply personal experience about the decision I made to step [...]
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 of enabling your startup dream. The process of [...]
Solar Energy Is Heating Up Tech — Even When The Sun Goes Down
In this guest post on Forbes.com, I talk about a recently announced scientific breakthrough from Harvard and MIT--and [...]
Questions
What are we going to make?Who are we going to sell it to?Why will they care?How are they going to learn about it? [...]
Nine Guiding Principles for Starting a Technology Business
In June of this year I gave a talk at the TAPPI conference in Washington, D.C. on the guiding principles for building a nanotechnology company. [...]
Job Security
It seems appropriate on Labor Day to think about job security. Is it just me or does it seem as though these days the only true [...]
Get the RED Out
Anyone who has ever been around entrepreneurs and early-stage companies knows that early-stage business projections (revenue, cash flow, profit) are overly optimistic. Experienced investors always [...]
The Importance of Scaling
A watershed moment happened to me in December 2009 following a pivotal customer meeting. I was the CEO of a nanotech company and we had [...]
Hot and Spicy Lemonade
My first entrepreneurial venture, back in 1993, was a barbecue sauce company. The backstory is that my grandfather, before World War II, had a barbecue [...]