SBIR/STTR grants are great. ‘SBIR shops’ are not.
As a partner at Lux Capital I search for, and invest in, technologies that are often based on fundamental innovations in science and engineering. Our team is not turned off when we encounter deep...
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Lemelson Foundation: Inspiring and enabling the next generation of inventors...
What do the following people have in common? William Hewlett & David Packard (founders of HP) Douglas Engelbart (inventor of the computer mouse) Robert Langer (prolific bioscience inventor &...
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An Experiment to revolutionize and democratize science
I conducted undergraduate thesis research at a small liberal arts college in Ohio (College of Wooster). That experience was vastly different from the Ph.D work I later completed at MIT. During...
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‘Twas the year of the Drones. Did you get to fly one?
What an amazing year 2014 was for the drone industry. Amazing highs and frustrating lows. Lots of new companies, new startups, many kickstarter success stories, and an ecosystem of technology...
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Women that are helping bring about the drone revolution
In How Google Works, Eric Schmidt talks about how the company approached recruiting its top talent that were internally referred to as “smart creatives”. Schmidt shared “These are the folks who combine...
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AirMap: Accurate airspace information so innovation can take flight.
The last 10-20 years showed an unprecedented growth in real-time information about our 2-D highway systems and the vehicular traffic on it. We all have easy access to GPS units or apps in our phone...
View ArticleDon’t reward bad behavior in early stage startups!
For the last few years we have lived in an extra-ordinary time for venture capital. Early stage companies have been getting support from venture capital at unprecedented levels, and we have seen all...
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Fundraising blues in 2016?
2016 began with a string of bad news related to the economy. From China economy to Twitter stock – it has certainly sent ripples through the early stage investment ecosystem that there me the opposite...
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Moved my blog to Medium
This blog has moved! Yup, it happened. Maintaining WordPress became too much work. And Medium’s tight integration with social & discovery was too hard to pass up on. Please click through to all my...
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