SM: Are you the only algae-based bio fuel company in the US? GK: No, a lot have popped up. There are four or five I think are in the same ball park as we are in terms of scale, and then there are a lot of little companies with a couple of stock tanks or [...]
By guest authors Charley Bush and Kathy Hwang of design and business consultancy 3Strand Innovation When was the last time you went the movies? Was it an experience worth remembering? The movie theater industry has been facing stagnating revenues for a while now. So why have industry players continued to put little effort into innovations [...]
By guest authors Charley Bush and Kathy Hwang of 3Strand Innovation DESIGN-DRIVEN BUSINESS – From Creative Idea to the Marketplace In the first two parts of this series we explored how a design-driven business prioritizes the user experience and holistically incorporates design thinking into all parts of the business. The last part of our discussion [...]
SM: How did you finance your initial ad campaign to allow you to obtain $2 million in sales? GK: I have some friends in the venture capital world. I showed them what I had and where I wanted to go, and they decided they wanted to join.
Leading 2D and 3D design software maker Autodesk (ADSK) announced their Q3 results yesterday. The stock might have taken a beating yesterday to close at $16.82 and is now hovering around $13.17, but the company’s performance makes me remain bullish on it.
Dell Inc (Nasdaq: DELL), the No.2 PC vendor with annual revenue of $61 billion, reported its third quarter results yesterday. Though slowdown in IT spending and demand saw its revenue decline and miss estimates, Dell’s cost-cutting measures have boosted its earnings, beating expectations. Last quarter, Dell beat revenue estimates but missed earnings estimates. This quarter the [...]
Zero-In this week takes a look at one of the most daunting issues of our time, health care, and calls for a bubble for that industry, so that capital, entrepreneurs and jobs flow into it over the next decade. Read Healing Health Care on Forbes. The biggest issue plaguing this industry is its broken business [...]
SM: What was your next step after Agristar? GK: I started my own consulting company and pursued other interests such as painting. I essentially took a break from the business world for two years, which let me think about what I wanted to do next. During that period I started developing innovative technology, some of [...]
