Forbes Column 09: Free To Innovate

As you know, I have been talking to lots of entrepreneurs about various business models to support innovation, especially in industries from which VCs are pulling out (Security, Networking, Chips, Enterprise Software, etc.). This article looks at a business model that offers an alternative framework to support innovation. Read my latest Forbes column, Free to Innovate.

Transforming Healthcare: Epocrates CEO Kirk Loevner (Part 2)

SM: Where did you go after Apple?

KL: I went to Silicon Graphics in 1993. They recruited me away because they wanted to build a developer organization like the one Apple had. That was a tough story. >>>

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 2001 to January 2004.

SM: Kirk, take us back to where your story begins. Where are you from? Where did you grow up?

KL: I was born outside of Philadelphia in 1957. I ended up going to college in Boston, to Tufts, for a degree in computer science. >>>

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 that are using technology and automation to bring down costs in various aspects of the Healthcare industry, from running physicians’ offices to nurse staffing to clinical trials. Today, I draw your attention to Massachusetts-based WaveMark, a Healthcare IT provider. >>>

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 existing IT infrastructures. The company provides software that enables utility companies to monitor their resource usage, leading to energy management, reliable service and reduced costs. >>>

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 lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let our minds awake.

-Rabindranath Tagore