I don't envy the print publications. First Web browsers, now iPads... new technology is destabilizing the very underpinnings of their business models. But some are adapting better than others. Here's a good way not to design a home page, from my friends at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. (Who, by the way, do a bang-up job of reporting the … [Read more...]
Cosopt
November 3, 2011 by
This post won't be of interest to you unless you, or someone you know, takes Cosopt eyedrops. (Also known as Dorzolamide HCl-Timolol Maleate Opthalmic Solution. Or, more colloquially, "Satan's tears.") … [Read more...]
Under the Sea
November 2, 2011 by
Sometimes, you just have to say yes. Guillermo Sohnlein, a friend from the Space Angels Network, is now CEO of the OceanGate Foundation. He emailed me a few weeks ago asking "Do you want to take a dive in a research submarine?" … [Read more...]
Startup Engineering
November 1, 2011 by
Last week, Charles Ross and I were in Texas for the annual conference of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF). Charles is on the board, and I was there to accept their 2011 award for "Excellence in Entrepreneurial Capital Formation" on behalf of EI2. I thought you might be interested in my remarks... Thanks for … [Read more...]
Immigration and Competitiveness
September 28, 2011 by
Back in June, I blogged about immigration as it affects student entrepreneurs at Georgia Tech. Apparently that qualified me as an expert on immigration policy! Someone at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce noticed what I'd written and invited me to a forum in Washington yesterday on "Immigration and American Competitiveness." … [Read more...]
M2M and the Internet of Things
September 26, 2011 by
Last Tuesday, September 20th, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and Numerex invited me to address the Second International M2M Standardization Meeting as the keynote speaker for their dinner at the Carter Center. I didn't know anything about M2M, but that's never stopped me from speaking before! So I started doing a little … [Read more...]
Georgia Forward
September 1, 2011 by
For my column this month, I wanted to talk about the Georgia Forward conference that was held at Callaway Gardens in mid-August. From their website, "Georgia Forward is an independent, non-partisan organization working to improve the state of Georgia by engaging business, political, academic and civil leaders to collaboratively shape a statewide … [Read more...]
More from “the Clough”
August 31, 2011 by
A few panoramas taken with my iPhone. Click any of the images to embiggen. And, for those of you who don't know Wayne Clough, he pronounces his name "Cluff"... There is actually green space at the center of Georgia Tech's campus! This is taken from the rooftop garden of the Clough building. More green space. The roads don't go here, … [Read more...]
Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons
August 30, 2011 by
Walking through the new undergraduate classroom building at Georgia Tech. The Grand Staircase Skiles Walkway Connected to the Library … [Read more...]
Keynote Conundrum
August 29, 2011 by
I'm preparing a presentation which consists almost exclusively of photographs with captions... no videos, no animations, very little text, simple transitions. I'm using Keynote '09 version 5.1 on the Mac as a glorified 35mm slide carousel. The file is 188 MEGAbytes. Which is absurd. There are 70 slides. I manually shrunk all the source … [Read more...]
