Another Take At Zero-Energy Buildings: Optimum Energy’s Nathan Rothman (Part 3)

SM: What exactly was the technology that you licensed? NR: Large buildings that are 100,000 square feet or greater have boilers in their basements that produce hot water, which is circulated around the building. There are radiators and fans that use the hot water to heat the air. That is how those buildings are heated.

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Forbes Column 2010: India’s Rising Tech Stars

Zero In this week features some entrepreneurs building product companies in India. You may have already read about them here on Deal Radar 2009. Read India’s Rising Tech Stars to find out more. I would love to see more examples like these to feature on Deal Radar and on Forbes. Also, there are two companies:

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Another Take At Zero-Energy Buildings: Optimum Energy’s Nathan Rothman (Part 2)

SM: What did you do after you closed down that business? NR: I took some time to recalibrate what I wanted to do next. As a sailor and hiker, I have always been interested in the environment. I saw oil prices going through the roof.

January 7 Roundtable Recording

Just in case you missed all or part of today’s session, here is the recording: Businesses discussed include a platform for connecting college students to social work, a knowledge management company that needs a viable go to market strategy, an online social marketplace for children’s picture books and merchandise, and a hotel owner looking to open several

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Singularity

Here’s an interesting post from Brad Feld on The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Martin Ford. Ford’s basic premise is as follows: “At some point in the future – it might be many years or decades from now – machines will be able to do the

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Another Take At Zero-Energy Buildings: Optimum Energy’s Nathan Rothman (Part 1)

Nathan Rothman is the president and CEO of Optimum Energy. He has spent the past 20 years as the president of a privately held company which structured, financed, built, and managed “green field” manufacturing plants for its clients around the world. Prior to that, Nathan founded Valiant Yacht Corporation, which was awarded the “Product of

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Deal Radar 2010: OmniGuide

OmniGuide, Inc. develops and commercializes high-precision, flexible, minimally invasive surgical instruments. OmniGuide’s family of indication-targeted fiber-optic scalpels enable flexible delivery of clinically beneficial CO2 laser energy, thereby broadening the field of minimally invasive surgery.