May The Forest Be With You: Using Whole Trees In Building Construction
In this post on Forbes.com I talk about a really [...]
A Bright Idea: Teaching Educators To Be Entrepreneurs
The National Science Foundation's new I-Corps L (for learning) program [...]
Cold Calling 100 Prospects A Day: One Entrepreneur’s Story
This week's posting on Forbes.com profiles a Naperville-area entrepreneur who [...]
A Test Working To Predict Sudden Cardiac Death
In this week's posting on Forbes.com I describe Charles Polsky's [...]
Foldable, Bendable And Bright: The Future Of Displays
Apple recently acquired a startup that makes micro-LEDs for displays, [...]
When It Comes to Entrepreneurship, Be A Pig
In this week's posting on Forbes.com I take on the [...]
Why You Should Write Your Own Term Sheet
In this week's post I propose a new way of [...]
Know When It’s Time to Go
In this article for Forbes.com I shared a deeply personal [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
Licensing Technologies from Universities
A common way for startups to get going is by [...]
Culture Clash: Scientists vs. Entrepreneurs
Much of the work that I have done involves transferring [...]
Why A Startup is Like Chutes and Ladders
You know Chutes and Ladders–the board game (Snakes and Ladders [...]
Get Out of the Building
We're a few weeks into the Lean LaunchPad Class, NSF [...]
Principle Two: Get the Manufacturing Right
You can't sell it if you can't make it. Most [...]