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  Atlanta, Geothermal project financing, and travel tips

  11.15.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Atlanta, Geothermal project financing, and travel tips

  We interrupt Ohio State/Michigan week for this special travel bulletin…I write this entry from a relatively empty gate (with power!) at Atlanta Hartfield airport. After leaving Baltimore early this morning and spending an hour on the ramp waiting for weather to pass I arrived at ATL having missed my connecting flight back to SJC. Oh […]

• Business, Energy, Innovation

  Energy conservation is important too…

  11.10.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Energy conservation is important too…

  I am delighted to see this joint program between Sun and PG&E: Sun Announces First-of-its-Kind Energy Rebate With PG&E Space, power, cooling and budget are the growing constraints for every datacenter. In August of this year, Sun announced a first-of-its-kind energy rebate for its Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with California utility PG&E. As […]

• Business, Innovation

  StormWatch keeps your roof on your house

  10.27.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on StormWatch keeps your roof on your house

  One of the people I’ve gotten to know through TTI/Vanguard is Meredith Anzulis. Recently, she decided to strike out on her own and formed a new company called StormWatch. Effectively, for those of you who live in areas with high wind (think hurricanes,) you use the StormWatch roof mesh product to keep your roof where […]

• Business, Coastal Stuff

  Investment Advice: Short Comcast

  10.27.06 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  As I’m sure many of you deal with large companies as a customer on a daily basis, this won’t be a surprising story. What I’d like to attempt to do is to alert those of you who work in such entities that seemingly good business policy can easily backfire, as in my experience with Comcast […]

• Business

  Not every idea is a good idea

  08.30.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Not every idea is a good idea

  A few days ago I posted an entry on 20 ideas venture capitalists would be willing to back with $100M. Well, Business 2.0 released the antithesis for that today in a short and direct article; examples of ideas VCs won’t back. This list is harder to collect as VCs are very reluctant to discuss them, […]

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