Since the state budget cuts began to bite EI2 in earnest a few years ago, one of our responses has been to look for new sources of revenue. … [Read more...]
Eating Our Own Dogfood
March 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
At the last quarterly meeting, we spent a bit of time talking about myGThealth.com and what we're trying to do to promote health and wellness inside EI2. There was a lot of discussion, and we've gathered even more information from those of you who responded to the survey. Nearly half of you have signed up and completed the initial online … [Read more...]
Flashpoint: The First Cohort
February 1, 2012 3 Comments
During January, the first class of Flashpoint graduates pitched their businesses at three events in Atlanta, New York City, and Menlo Park, California. I've written about Flashpoint before, but I find that a lot of EI2 employees still ask "So does Flashpoint compete with ATDC? Is it replacing VentureLab?" Now that we've seen our first results, it's … [Read more...]
Looking Back on 2011
January 9, 2012 Leave a Comment
A new year is a good time to look back at the old year and see how far we’ve come. It’s a classic “can’t see the forest for the trees” problem... we’re all so busy working on our own individual projects, it’s hard sometimes to see the overall growth and vitality of EI2 as a whole. Below is a necessarily-incomplete list of EI2 … [Read more...]
Cooperation with Korea
November 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
In the fall of 2008, Atlanta was experiencing a major gasoline shortage. Hurricanes Gustav and Ike had rocked refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. Carl Rust asked David Bridges and James Seals if they could go to Savannah to help with a large College of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) proposal. Fortunately, the duo had just enough gas … [Read more...]
Supporting Technology Entrepreneurs in Georgia
November 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
I prepared the following document as my testimony to the State Science and Technology Strategic Plan Joint Study Commission, meeting in Columbus on 30 November 2011. It's going to be available on their website, but I decided to replicate it here. … [Read more...]
Immigration and Competitiveness
September 28, 2011 29 Comments
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 Leave a Comment
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 Leave a Comment
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...]
Tom Sawyer’s Fence
July 1, 2011 1 Comment
There is an old Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China. --Spock, Star Trek VI When I took over EI2 two years ago, one of the first things I did was merge ATDC and VentureLab. It was the right thing to do at the time... but times have changed. Nina Sawczuk has been director of Startup Services for almost a year and has ambitious growth … [Read more...]
