Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial proverbs

March 8, 2006

There’s a nice post over at O’Reilly Radar by Marc Hedlund on entrepreneurial proverbs. Marc gives advice on entrepreneurship for the engineers and geeks. Regardless of your background, these are some of the best and most concise points I’ve read. He breaks down the advice into a few categories: starting, the idea, people, product, and [...]

Startups on the cheap

March 1, 2006

Tom Taulli has a great article on Forbes on how startups can stretch their cash (via Southeast VC).

Guy Kawasaki starts blog

December 31, 2005

Guy Kawasaki has started his blog entitled “Let the Good Times Roll” (and it’s about time Guy!) The Art of the Start is one of my favorite books on entrepreneurship and I recently bought Rules for Revolutionaries. Guy’s writing style is engaging, informative, and to the point. I expect the same from his blog, so [...]

Incubating ideas at Virginia Tech’s CRC

November 29, 2005

The November 28th issue of the Blue Ridge Business Journal has an article by Jeff Crooke entitled Incubating ideas at Virginia Tech’s CRC. Inside is a quote from yours truly:

Environmental Business Plan Challenge

October 25, 2005

I saw a full page ad in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal for ECOnomics: The Environmental Business Plan Challenge. I thought I would post this in case anyone had an idea for an environmentally focused business:

New River Valley job incubator

September 29, 2005

I’ve been in DC the past two days so I originally missed this article, but there was another mention of the VT KnowledgeWorks dedication ceremony this past weekend by Andrew Kantor of the Roanoke Times. There’s a little more detail in this one with regards to square footage cost, the facility’s funding, and the different [...]

VT KnowledgeWorks dedication ceremony

September 26, 2005

The formal dedication of the VT KnowledgeWorks facility occurred this past Saturday. Speakers included Senator George Allen, Congressman Richard Boucher, and Virginia Tech President Charles Steger. In addition to some nice media coverage, existing VT KnowledgeWorks member companies had the opportunity to speak with both the honored guests as well as the press and discuss [...]

New tenants moving into VT KnowledgeWorks

September 9, 2005

Things are starting to heat up here in the VT KnowlegeWorks building. We have two new tenants moving in beside my suite: Biomedical Implant Technology and Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties (VTIP). A full listing of the program members can be found at the following link.

VT KnowledgeWorks featured in Virginia Business Magazine

September 8, 2005

Virginia Business Magazine has an article featuring VT KnowledgeWorks. From the article, At VT KnowledgeWorks, a year-old business incubator in Blacksburg, the goal of some companies is not just to make a profit but to change the world. NBE Technologies, for example, is working on ways to enable LEDs (light-emitting diodes) to burn brighter, a [...]

Writing again, with a new focus

September 8, 2005

With the move of EvolvePoint to Blacksburg and the Virginia Tech’s Corporate Research Center, I’ve been very slack in writing to my blog. Now that things are settling down a bit (emphasis on “a bit”) I plan on writing much more often. Come to think of it, I think I’ve said these words before, but [...]

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