Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 5)

SM: How long were you at Perfect.com? KS: I did that for three years and left in 2002. I enjoyed every bit of it. We did several acquisitions and then decided to do a merger of equals with a company called eScout, with the headquarters moving to Kansas City. I left the company at that

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Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 4)

SM: What was the closing chapter of Air Communication? KS: There was real technology and we had orders coming in. People wanted to buy product, and the skeleton office sold a few hundred thousand dollars a year for the next several years.

How Does the Uptick Rule Affect Stock Prices?

By Guest Author Tim Smith [More than 5,000 people signed a petition calling for the reinstatement of the uptick rule that was prepared by Jim Cramer, William Furber, Eric Oberg and Scott Rothbort and sent to the SEC earlier this week. In today’s guest post, Tim Smith of SunGard’s Astec Analytics weighs on the effects

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Timothy Smith

Tim Smith is Senior Vice President at SunGard Securities Finance, where he is responsible for the Astec Analytics suite of products. Tim has spent 25 years in the securities lending industry with experience in all sides of the business. After leaving the London School of Economics, he joined the Royal Bank of Scotland Group in

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Toward Zero-Energy Buildings: Kevin Surace, Serious Materials (Part 3)

SM: What was the purpose of starting Air Communications? KS: In 1992 I met some people and came up with a business plan to start Air Communications as a wide area wireless device company. You could surf the web and recieve a fax with a little dial-up phone called an Air Communicator.

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: “Bootstrapping” In Tune With The Times

Francine Hardaway has a great review of EJ2 over at FastCompany. She writes, “Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time, because it’s something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO in six months. In this, the second volume of Entrepreneurs Journeys, her

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