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  2020 VC

  04.18.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A long standing problem in corporations over $1B in annual sales is identifying and nurturing innovation. Why? Read the Innovator’s Dilemma and you’ll get the answer and then some. Corporations, despite intellectually knowing and really wanting to innovate, are nearly impotent in realizing true innovation because it’s so frequently opposed to the status quo. And […]

• Business, Coastal Stuff, Innovation, Oddyssea, Technology & Science

  Mmm. Raspberry Pi.

  03.09.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you follow computing at all, you might be familiar with the Raspberry Pi project. It’s a simple ARM processor mini computer. That is a computer that can run Linux on a board the size of a credit card and is power efficient enough to run on battery, yet is powerful enough to stream full […]

• Business, Coastal Stuff, Innovation, Oddyssea

  Ode to a Box Joint

  02.24.12 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m working on a prototype for a product we’ll carry in the store. Nope, not ready to talk about the store concept or this particular product. Let’s just say that I needed to assemble a wooden box frame to help support the main components of the prototype. Now, strictly speaking, I didn’t need to use […]

• Business, Coastal Stuff, Commentary, Humor, Innovation

  Yesterday was a Killer!

  02.10.12 | Permalink | Comments Off on Yesterday was a Killer!

  So, I wake up normally at 4:30, as is my custom. I attempt to get my head spun up and get ready for a busy day. Here’s the agenda: clear the normal communications backlog from over night, drive to Menlo Park, meet one of my re.vu co-founders to finish an investor presentation and demo, head […]

• Business, Innovation

  Honeywell sucks

  02.06.12 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  As a refresher, the explicit deal regarding a patent is that the inventor(s) agree to publicly disclose the details of their invention in exchange for a period of time where the idea belongs to them alone. Others can only use the invention with the inventor’s permission during that finite period of exclusive protection. This means […]

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