Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 1)

Kirk Loevner began his career with VisiCorp in the early 1980s before moving to Apple, where he worked for the next ten years. Afterwards he worked at Silicon Graphics, as the CEO of Internet Shopping Network, and then founded PublishOne in November 1998. He then was the CEO and chairman of Pinnacor (ScreamingMedia) from December

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Book Reviews: Sitting With The Masters

I had asked for referrals to professors of entrepreneurship a few months back here and on LinkedIn. Well, we have been in touch with many of them on your lists. Here is a review of EJ1 from Prof. Barrett Hazeltine at Brown University:

Deal Radar 2009: WaveMark

A recent widely-cited poll by PriceWaterhouseCoopers says that three-quarters of Americans want healthcare reform in President Obama’s first term. Such reform must reduce the cost of administering care, and many industry observers agree one way to achieve this is through higher levels of computerization. Over the past two months, Deal Radar has featured several companies

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Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 7)

SM: What should I have aksed you that I didn’t? Where do you go from here? RJ: We spend the next couple of years getting up to the level of revenue, assuming we perform to our projections, that will allow us to go public. Hopefully the IPO market will be back.

Deal Radar 2009: eMeter

It appears that President Obama’s Energy Policy will include substantial spending on smart grid technologies. Let’s look at one. San Mateo, CA-based eMeter provides enterprise scale energy information management solutions for the utility mass market with the goal of saving electricity by educating customers on efficient electricity usage. Its flexible SOA-compliant architecture integrates easily into

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To President Obama

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection Where the clear stream of reason has not

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Commercial OpenSource: SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson (Part 6)

SM: I do like that you initially started out as a bootstrapped company. Do you think that helped you focus in the beginning? RJ: One reason I am happy that we waited for three years prior to being funded, aside from figuring things out without the potentially unwanted help from VCs, is that we had

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Deal Radar 2009: Sungevity

Sungevity uses the Internet to offer its customers an easy and affordable way to buy and install solar rooftop panels. Customers only need to provide their address and some information about their current electricity usage and bill. In less than a day, with the use of satellite data, Sungevity studies the possibilities and comes back

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