Tualatin startup GadgetTrak was featured yesterday in The Oregonian. GadgetTrak’s products help customers recover stolen iPods, cell phones and computers.
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
Guy Kawasaki’s blog provides a link to the Battelle Memorial Foundation report: Productive Nanosystems – a Technology Roadmap. If you’d like a thorough overview of nanotech, this is it!
In a recent post to his blog, Guy Kawasaki talks about Hometips — the winner of a Google Adsent Story Contest. The company started in a backyard clubhouse — the owner converted the 1st floor of his son’s 2-story tree house. The story just gets better from there!
Ethanol.org reported that a recent study found that certain blends of ethanol can result in better mileage than regular unleaded gasoline. The study was cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE)
The Silicon Forest Blog reported yesterday that Elemental Technologies has closed $1 million in investments from the Oregon Angel Fund, the Bend Venture Conference and the Seattle Alliance of Angels.
An article in The Economist this week talks about the U.S. "reckless ethanol subsidies" being one of the factors behind recent dramatic increases in food prices.
A recent Sydney Morning Herald article, using Friendster as an example, argues that VCs can sometimes push a company in the wrong direction.
The Portland Business Journal reported today that Iovation received a U.S. patent for it’s network security and fraud detection technology. They received a $10 million investment from Intel Capital last month.
In a recent blog post, Guy Kawasaki provides links to a number of useful articles on how to come up with a name. If you’re like me, picking a company or product name is a real nuisance. The articles Guy links to have lots of helpful ideas!
VC Fred Wilson’s recent blog post on "Why Early Stge Venture Investments Fail" is interesting reading. I agree with a number of his observations, including:
My friend Dick Costolo, co-founder of FeedBurner, describes a startup
as the process of going down lots of dark alleys only to find that they
are dead ends. Dick describes the art of a successful deal as figuring
out they are dead ends quickly and trying another and another until you
find the one paved with gold.
