This news was hitting a few outlets yesterday, but really got traction starting a couple of hours ago. I’ve been reading about it since yesterday and if turns out to be reproducible, this will be one of the most interesting physics applications of my lifetime. NASA
I loved this article from Mashable, yesterday: 8 Surging Startup Industries to Watch. I agree that these 8 are the big ones where we’re likely to see a lot of innovation and new products and services over the next 5 years. I especially love this list because several
I don’t have a lot to add on this, except to say, duh! $2100 for a desktop CNC-type 3D fab unit? Take a solid chunk of plastic or metal, and let this thing whittle it down into an installation-ready part, as hard as any other
Interesting news from the US Naval Research Laboratory: They’ve built an E-CEM electrolytic cation exchange module that allows them to create hydrocarbon fuel from seawater, with electricity. The intended application, probably, is to use some of the 190 megawatt surplus that an aircraft carrier nuclear reactor maintains, to
Here’s one of the better articles I’ve seen on the Bitcoin phenomenon: Bitcoin Is Pointless as a Currency, But It Could Change the World Anyway | Enterprise | WIRED. I’m not sure I agree with his conclusion. Read that through, and then come back. Here’s
Consider this a draft, but I wanted to get these ideas out there, because I find myself talking to both startups and investors about them, a lot, as I go about my VentureSpur business. It won’t come as much of a surprise to my typical
ProfitBricks, a cloud computing host, has published a graphic about why it is such a great time to start a company right now in America. Here’s the graphic and article, hosted at SmallBizTrends. Know what? We agree! The factors highlighted in this graphic – lower
Sitting here, listening to “Der Kommissar” and thinking about the future. I haven’t had time to blog recently, with the birth of our second child, but I’m just going to dive back in with an “Exploration of the Inevitable” First up, automated sentiment trading. Precipitated
3) The networked digital delivery of all media, especially including newspapers. This is a big topic and dear to my heart, so I’ve dedicated an entire post to this one. Regardless of what anyone might think about the ongoing need for paper delivery, the simple
As an active entrepreneur and investor, from time to time I step back and review the meta-trends that will drive entrepreneurial success in the near future. There are certain inexorable trends that drive social and economic change, and those are the trends that we must