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Disruption: Planetary Resources Wins
Planetary Resources, with its roster of all-star billionaire investors and audacious business plan of mining asteroids has garnered significant press since emerging into the public’s eye. My business crush on this company is comparable to my 2001 infatuation with Salesforce.com; … Continue reading
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Andreessen Horowitz’s Missed Opportunity to Change VC Fee Structure
The fees that LPs pay to venture capitalists will only change if a top-tier VC fund volunteers to give its investors a discount. We’ll never know what would have happened had Andreessen Horowitz taken a different tact with their donations … Continue reading
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The Prisoner’s Dilemma of Textile Trade Shows
Techtextil North America wrapped up last week in Atlanta, GA. It was the largest textile show I’ve ever been to in the US. Technical textiles are a big industry; some $126 Bn in 2011 sales according to IFAI. The industry … Continue reading
Geography & Location-Based Apps: A Sales Perspective
I’ve been using several geo-based Apps on an iPhone 4S and trying to think through how they could be made more useful in traditional sales and marketing areas. I manage a team that sells high end industrial machinery to traditional … Continue reading
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TEDx Raleigh Transcript: Making Textiles Sexy
Below is the transcript from my TEDx Raleigh deck – in putting it together I noticed some mistakes, which are noted. I had walked through four intro slides that were a play on “Making Sexy Textiles” that was not caught … Continue reading
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Moving from iWeb to WordPress
Just now moving everything over from an ancient iWeb set-up to WordPress. No quick way to migrate; I expect all older links will be broken.
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A Framework for JA-Markets
As part of moving the blog from iWeb to WordPress, I’ve moved over the most popular posts. This article deserved some additions. The original .pdf of the article is here. What is a JA-Market? JA is an acronym for “Just … Continue reading
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Framework for Materials Science Innovation: Promoting Musso
The original .pdf of this paper is here. The .pdf has several images and graphs that are not present here. Introduction This article was written to summarize and promote the concepts of Dr. Christopher Musso (bio is here [http://esd.mit.edu/people/alumni.html#musso]), as … Continue reading
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Operational Framework for Private Equity and Venture Capital
The original .pdf of this document is here. Introduction While there are a number of books, articles and case studies that dwell on the investment criteria and portfolio companies of private equity funds, few deal with the challenges of running … Continue reading
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The Grazing Game: A Framework for Industry and Firm Behavior
The original .pdf of this write-up is here. The use of simulations to model behavior has increased in popularity; with increased computing power and software capabilities simulations have been able to replicate complex real-world behaviors. For a thorough text on … Continue reading
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