April 2011 Blog Posts (8)

Haydn Shaughnessy contributes his list. Do you think he got it correct? What companies do you see as the most innovative?

e-Cycle has declared April “National Recycle Your Cell Phone Month” to help raise awareness for the growing e-waste problem with mobile devices, and as a reminder for organizations to implement responsible mobile phone recycling programs. As an incentive, e-Cycle is offering businesses and organizations a chance to win one of four Apple iPad2s when they recycle and/or sell their used wireless devices with the company through May 31.

Entering the contest is easy:…

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WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) is a growing problem worldwide.  The scary issue: most governments, electronics companies and watchdogs don’t know where it is all ending up.  Ironically we know it is ending up in the (with little trace of where it originated) landfills in many countries and leeching into our groundwater and atmosphere.  And yet many of the items that are tossed are in great need and short supply to continue building all the electronic items…

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The weather is warming, spring fever is setting in, and many of us will be taking some sort of road trip in the near future.  I see three main types of “road trippers”.   They are:

• “Free Spirit Sally” – Sally believes it is best to “just be moving” and the fun is in the journey.
• “Distracted Dan” – Dan knows his destination, creates a plan to get there, but gets sidetracked by billboards advertising caves, outlet malls,…

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It was encouraging to see that Central Ohio (and others) continues to feed its startup companies with capital, as published in the 2010 Innovation Capital Report.  More and more of the earliest stage companies are receiving that critical seed capital that they require to attract a venture capital investor or receive that first revenue. 

The number of seed deals completed have…

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The Ohio Bioscience Growth Report is published annually by BioOhio, the state’s bioscience membership and development organization, to communicate the progress of the bioscience industry in Ohio. Industry trend analysis and economic impact sections were excerpted from a commissioned study conducted by the Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University…The primary intent of the Report is to factually document the economic performance of Ohio’s bioscience industry during…

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Did you ever wonder where and how you get rid of those old electronics such as laptops, cell phones, routers, PC’s and other electronic items?  If you have taken items someplace, did you know if they were properly destroyed, that any data was protected and the items did not wind up in a landfill anywhere in the world?

 

Here are some quick answers for Central Ohio business and residents to keep in mind.  A reputable recycler usually has a charge for some hard to process…

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One of the things I ask of any startup, especially unfunded startups, is to tell me their minimum marketable feature—that one rudimentary value of your eventual feature-set that can fetch a price all by itself.  After the eager entrepreneur has rambled for at least 15 seconds, I interrupt with, “That’s great, but what’s your MMF?”  Blank stares inevitably ensue.  And that’s okay.  If you cannot answer today, you simply have some thinking to do. I have come to believe that the most valuable… Continue