Essays
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Monday, August 16th, 2010As an astronomer, I sometimes think in expansive terms. So the title of this article could have just as easily been “One World” or something like that. For it is about the limits of where we live.
But in a real sense while we live in just one universe, in a galaxy like this [...]
Incubator Fun
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Here is a short XtraNormal video about how to work with our incubator. Fun concept and fun to use. Still working on the creative side of it all.
The Big Picture
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010One of my favorite books is an autobiography of Thomas Edison published around 1934 very near the end of his life. In it, the author relates the observation that the phonograph was perhaps Edison’s most radical invention. You see, at the time, no one even thought it was possible to record people’s voices. The idea [...]
Startups – Focus on the Business Model
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010Small World Group Incubator is now up and running in Singapore. As we go about our formation actions, we keep reminding ourselves that these “businesses” we are starting up are going to have to really discover their own functioning business model during their first year if possible.
So often in Universities and other places the focus [...]
Big Picture
Thursday, May 20th, 2010Every once in a while, there is something on the web that knocks my socks off.
As many of the readers of this Weblog know, I was once an astronomer; my PhD is in that field from the University of Virginia. During that time, I studied the structure of spiral galaxies (1), (2), (3) like [...]
Life and Thought
Monday, May 10th, 2010Time for a thinking piece. If you don’t like mushy stuff, skip this one.
Several people I know well have passed on in the last few months. And times like that make you reflect on their lives and your own.
I also urge you to reflect on how each of us must work to live [...]
Getting into Business
Sunday, April 11th, 2010A little remembered episode of my past is that I started a company called Netek in 1984. The “plan”, which was formally written down, was essentially the same as that of Finisar.
Except. That the plan called for us to invent, design, develop, manufacture and sell products for fiber optic network that we were certain that [...]
Watching a Team Win
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Those of you who read this Blog may not know that I graduated from Butler University. Yes the same Butler that is now in the NCAA Basketball championship game. All of the other schools have 10,000 students or more (typically sizes are more than 20,000 students) but Butler has only 4,000. And more importantly the [...]
Singapore Updates
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Things are settling in for SWG in Singapore.
While we still do not have final documents from the National Research Foundation, we are proceeding with a couple of early term sheets and engaged nicely with perhaps 4-5 groups who we hope will come to full fruition.
There is a small interview on a Singapore website that also [...]
Green Home Video
Saturday, December 19th, 2009I have written about the green home in Tiburon … now here is a video!
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