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Lessons for CleanTech Entrepreneurs: Raychem CEO Paul Cook (Part 3)
[This part of the story is written by Paul Cook] Our first crisis occurred in September when the “tube” of our GE EBG burned out. Halperin got the job of getting a new tube fast so that our manufacturing could continue. The new tube didn’t work nor the one after that nor the one after
Building the Electronic Arts of Casual Gaming: PlayFirst CEO John Welch (Part 2)
SM: Mowing your way to MIT! JW: I used my mowing money to pay my half of the cost for one of the first Intel 8088 processor personal computers. I guess I didn’t use my old TI-994A enough, so my parents were convinced that the new ‘toy’ would just gather dust unless – or even
Building the Electronic Arts of Casual Gaming: PlayFirst CEO John Welch (Part 1)
The Internet is changing the content business dramatically, and in this story, we will explore the casual gaming industry through the eyes of entrepreneur John Welch, a gaming industry veteran, who hopes to build a brand as high-impact as Electronic Arts in video gaming, through his venture PlayFirst. I met John a long time ago
Thank you Japan
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author It was the Summer of 1987. I was sitting in my living room drinking Jack Daniels and listening to the Grateful Dead while trying to figure out what I was going to do next. I had just spent seven years on the M.I.T. faculty, teaching VLSI and doing research, but
Tracking Progress: MIT OCW
Great article from NYT about MIT’s Open Courseware effort: MIT Education in China, Minus the Degree. Read how a young Chinese millionaire translates OCW courses and evangelizes the program in China. ZD Net reports on OCW: Six Years Later, Bigger Than Ever: “Celebrating its sixth anniversary, the OpenCourseWare Project’s goal is to put MIT’s course
My years at DARPA
By Lance Glasser, Guest Author When I ran the electronics technology directorate at DARPA I had the wonderful job of examining a big percentage of all of the advanced electronics research in the country. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is the central research program arm of the US Department of Defense. It was
What does a CTO do?
by Lance Glasser, Guest Author What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? It is the most ill-defined of the CxO jobs. The trick is figuring out what activities can make a difference and which are merely motions. We all have more things we don’t know about than things we do.
