I couldn’t find it online in OregonLive.com, but The Oregonian, in their Saturday Startup block featured OTBC resident venture UV Cleaning Systems. UV Cleaning’s CEO is Mark Owen, founder and former CEO of Phoseon. According to the startup’s website,
UV Cleaning Systems, Inc. is developing a new Technology for air
and water purification. We are designing a
revolutionary air and water purification system that uses
semiconductor ultraviolet light with a photocatalyst to remove
bacteria, viruses, fumes, and chemicals from your air and
water.
Marshall Kirkpatrck posted a short discussion of the Semantic Web on his blog that you should check out if you’re wondering just what "Semantic Web" means. There’s a link to a great interview with a BYU PhD student that goes into much more detail.
The 2007 Global Telesummit on "Celebrating a Decade of Personal Branding" has posted a number of MP3 audio recordings of conference sessions, including topics like:
- For job seekers: Use Personal Branding to Take Your Job Search from Zero to 60
- For entrpreneurs: Evangelizing Evangelists to Build a Business and Build Your Brand
- For managers: Building Your Employer Brand to Win the War for Talent
Check it out at the Gobal Telesummit website.
A recent InsideCRM article lists what the publication thinks are the 20 worst VC investments of all time. Reading about companies like Webvan.com, Pets.com, eToys, Kosmo, and Boo.com took me right back to the bubble…
The Portland Business Journal reported this past week that the Oregon Angel Fund invested $205,000 in Daverci, a startup founded in 2001 to create an electronic medication management system for long-term care facilities and the pharmacies that supply them.
Beaverton startup (and OTBC resident) Lumeno.us was featured in The Oregonian’s "Startup" feature today. Lumeno.us’ product is a web-based solution that allows business owners to track their business and measure it against others in their industry.
John Cook of the Seattle Post Intelligencer reported that a new Seattle venture capital firm, led by real estate and board game
entrepreneur Craig Kinzer, is looking to place 20 to 30 early-stage
bets in a diverse crop of startup businesses.
Rob Wiltbank of Willamette
University and Warren Boeker of the University of Washington, sponsored
by the Angel Capital Association and the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation, scrutinize more than a 1100 exits by 539 angel investors to
discover an average return of 2.6 times their original investment in
just 3 ½ years, amounting to an impressive IRR or 27%, rivaling even
the most successful venture capital firms. Read more.
A post in Guy Kawasaki’s blog suggests that there are a number of reasons that a first-time entrepreneur might have an advantage over a serial entrepreneur. Reasons include that the serial entrepreneur:
- Might have just been lucky the first time
- Might try the same tactics in the 2nd company as the 1st (and they might not fit…)
- The don’t (or can’t) work as hard as the first-time CEO
A recent Business Week article suggests that Internet users may be getting numb to all those ads:
The truth about
online ads is that precious few people actually click on them. And the
percentage of people who respond to common "banner ads," the ubiquitous
interactive posters that run in fixed places on sites, is shrinking
steadily. Read more…
