http://www.techinnoventure.com A blog on the intersection of Technology, Innovation, and Adventure. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:13:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a few weeks of email discussions and meetings lead by CED a local group of entrepreneurs and investors have thrown their support behind LaunchBox Digital and Triangle Startup Factory, two RTP based startup company incubators who will join forces under the LaunchBox Digital brand. I'm really excited to see ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=477 A few of my favorite entrepreneurial groups (NC Spark and TheFunded.com) have been buzzing in recent weeks about the current Chris Dodd financial reform bill. I submitted my support for one of the online petitions collecting signatures against this proposed legislation this evening. I am strongly against the suggested 120 ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=473 I have been following wireless electricity in this blog for some time now, through these previous posts: Wireless Electricity Update Summer 2009, and Wireless Electricity (multiple updates within) Here's the most recent installment of news on the topic. It looks like the folks at WiTricity, of whom I am their biggest fan, in Massachusetts ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=471 Through a series of comments this week the Venture Capital industry has proven once again to be a highly fragmented group of independent thinkers who will likely never play nicely with each other. A great article in the NY Times on the state of the Venture Capital market shows contending ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=465 I've spent the last few weeks, in the occasional moments of downtime, reading through the NVCA's four pillar plan for reopening the IPO markets with the goal of restoring liquidity to Venture Capitalism. Any executive or board member of a venture backed startup doing $20M in annual revenue or more ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=460 This is an update on recent developments in wireless electricity. I've been writing about wireless electricity for several years now and have corresponded with Marin Soljacic at MIT on one occassion regarding his progress as well. The MIT Technology Review is doing a good job of following along with the ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=457 Our friend Tully over at MyTireMonkey.com created a nice video today that explains how their unique system works and how partners can get involved in their private label program for online tire sales. Right now they're running an offer with no upfront costs to become a private label partner. This ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=456 I had the pleasure of enjoying several automatically vended Sapporo Beers from an amazing Sapporo Beer Machine (my name for it) during a five hour layover in Toyko's Narita airport on May 4th 2009. I found this little jewel of beer serving luxury in the Priority Lounge while I was ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=453 Please excuse the painful play on words in the title of this post. I'm a big fan of the movement around Global Climate Change right now and if nothing else it should help the US and other industrial powers stop polluting the world for the rest of civilization. Let it increase ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=448 Thanks to everyone who supported me on my goal of visiting Mt. Everest Base Camp on foot. I set this goal almost three years ago in the Fall of 2006 after reading Ed Viesturs' book No Shortcuts to the Top which I found to be one of the best climbing/adventure ... http://www.techinnoventure.com/?p=425