energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...

Though I watch little broadcast television, I was well aware of Steve Wozniak's recent appearance on Dancing With the Stars on ABC, but the whole reality TV show genre is one I find revolting as "nasty" (or the possibility thereof) is the way the judges ensure they rile up the crowd and get people t...

Hothead Technologies and Kennesaw State University are currently testing an RFID-enabled helmet that tracks the body temperature of a player and promises to lessen dangerous instances of over heating. In the last decade, companies have looked into developing systems to better measure player temperat...

Those of you who follow my blog should have noticed a new look and feel today!  If you receive this missive in your email box via an RSS feed, I encourage you to stop by www.ThePhoenixPrinciple.com to see the new look. As most of you know, I'm quite serious about helping organizations realize that ...

Here's a clip from a recent keynote in Las Vegas. I'm challenging the audience to think about the issue of maintaining brand relevance, in the era in which customers increasingly influence the perception of brands through social networking tools. The key challenge today is preventing a brand from be...

Getting the jump on your competition is as simple as knowing what your customers want. If so, empathy, not just innovation, is crucial to success. Comparing the success of two Microsoft products, Xbox and Zune, Business Week's piece "Empathy is Growth" nails one key difference between unsuccessful a...

people, Internet, Entrepreneurship Robert Buderi wrote: For entrepreneurs and investors alike, it was a sad day back in January, when Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced he would stay in Silicon Valley year round and give up splitting his startup incubation activities between Mountain View an...

Roundup, deals, Life Sciences Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: It’s hard for any company to raise capital in this recession, but several San Diego life sciences startups disclosed last week they had done just that. A few bright spots also appeared during a local seminar on mergers and acquisitionsR...

During Martin Bean’s keynote presentation at the NAACE 2009 Strategic Conference one of the new technologies that was demonstrated was Deep Zoom. I’ve mentioned Deep Zoom before in relation to my recent visit to the UK Microsoft Innovative Teachers Forum in Reading. The Hard Rock Café collectio...

I was delighted when I was sent a free copy of Barack, Inc.: Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign to review. Not just because I voted for him, but because this is a book about how to sell change, major change, to strangers and in doing so turn them into a community of supporters. That̵...