The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 4)

SM: Based on the way you are approaching the problem, it seems much easier to do relevance in a constrained domain than in an unconstrained domain. TC: Absolutely. Relevance is the idea of constraining things.

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David Godber

David became Deputy Chief Executive of the UK Design Council in June 2008. His remit is to lead the delivery of Design Council programs and strengthen their impact across the UK. He works across all the organization’s main programs, including Designing Demand, the Design Council’s business transformation service for SMEs. Before he joined the Design

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Design Your Way Out of a Downturn

By guest author David Godber of the UK Design Council Fortunes can change for any business – large or small. Shifts in the global economy, changes in the marketplace or the ebb and flow of consumer sentiment are just some of the factors that can send a once-successful operation into decline. Even mighty businesses such

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The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 3)

SM: How successful is your architecture when it comes to indexing? TC: We now index a lot more pages than other people. Microsoft and Yahoo! have fallen behind in terms of indexing and keeping up with Google. Google will get better with more competition.

Cadence Names New CEO

Putting all speculation to rest, Cadence today named its new CEO. Lip-Bu Tan will be running the company. Tan has been on the board of Cadence for five years. Here are further details from EE Times and DeepChip.

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 2)

SM: Did Anna go to Google after it went public? TC: She went there before it went public. Google was in a total panic as Yahoo! had come out with a competitive product. Google was in a hyper phase of trying to make things better, which is a terrible thing to do. They got nothing

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Forbes Column 2009: Advice For Laid-Off Engineers

Here’s the new Forbes piece, Advice For Laid-Off Engineers. It profiles several entrepreneurs whose path to entrepreneurship began upon being laid off. Some continued in engineering. Some explored other markets.

Deal Radar 2009: EnerNOC

Continuing our coverage of Cleantech, today’s Deal Radar features Boston-based EnerNOC. Founded in 2001 by Tim Healy and David Brewster, EnerNOC is an energy management solution provider. Though it provides technology-enabled energy management solutions such as monitoring-based commissioning and energy procurement services, its primary business is Demand Response (DR). The company aggregates excess electrical capacity at

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