Innovating In Sustainable Building Materials: Hycrete CEO David Rosenberg (Part 3)

SM: Did any of the DOTs respond to your value proposition after the bridge collapses?

DR: People have said that they have never seen a technology get traction so fast. Within a short period of time we were getting into projects with many DOTs. Most were in demonstration projects. >>>

Forbes Column 2009: Health Care IT’s Diagnosis: Excellent

On Zero-In I called for a Health Care bubble earlier. Read Health Care IT’s Diagnosis: Excellent for an update on the market and the entrepreneurial activity.

Innovating In Sustainable Building Materials: Hycrete CEO David Rosenberg (Part 2)

SM: When did you start Hycrete?

DR: I did a six-sigma training program at Honeywell for a month and a half after my MBA and could not stand it. My grandfather passed away and at his shiva I spoke with my uncle and cousin who were also in the family business. That is when the Hycrete opportunity became apparent. >>>

Keyword Pricing

Readers, one of my research associates, Saad Fazil, is working on making sense of the convoluted world of keyword pricing – Google AdWords, Vertical Search Engines, and well as Organic Search. Saad would like to request that you share your knowledge if you have perspective to share on the topic …

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Getting Started

I’d like to share a bit of a terrific and detailed review of Entrepreneur Journeys that Robert Steele, a “Top 50 Reviewer” for Amazon, posted:

“[Entrepreneur Journeys] is a series of vignettes, one-third context, one-third financing, and one-third nuggets, and for the nuggets alone it is assuredly worthy of purchase and reflection.

As a long-time fan of Peter Drucker’s, and especially his focus on work as a calling and capitalism as doing well financially by doing good for the customer, I have an early note, “in the Drucker tradition.”  “That is *very* high praise.” >>>

Innovating In Sustainable Building Materials: Hycrete CEO David Rosenberg (Part 1)

David founded what is now Hycrete, Inc. in 2002, when he joined his family’s specialty chemical company. His family has been involved in inventing and manufacturing novel specialty chemicals for over 30 years. David still works closely with his family in both research and development and manufacturing. David is a leader in sustainable construction.

SM: Let’s start where your story begins. Where did you grow up and what was your family like?

DR: I grew up in New York City as a third generation Bronx kid. I went to North Carolina for college and then came back after college. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Tabula Digita

Today’s Deal Radar is an educational gaming company, Tabula Digita. Based in New York city, the company was founded by NT Etuk. Part Nigerian and part Bahamian, he came to United States to study Computer Science. Between undergraduate and business school, he did Big Brothers Big Sisters, where he had a little brother. Etuk had to teach him Algebra but found that the challenge with the young man lay with his interest in the subject and not with his learning ability. He saw that a lot of young people lost out only because learning was not fun and engaging. He started Tabula Digita, to try and rectify that. >>>

Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Medassets CEO John Bardis (Part 7)

SM: How would you adjust national policy to drive more efficiency based business versus a cost plus system?

JB: We need to align the physician and the hospital so that the smartest group of people in healthcare can be aligned with care. We need to eliminate regulations which prevent hospitals from incenting their caregivers to provide better results. This would give better outcomes at a substantially reduced cost. >>>