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 various industrial customers and sells it to utilities. >>>

The Audacity of Tom Costello (Part 1)

Tom Costello has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University. His emphasis is artificial intelligence (AI), and aside from teaching he has worked as a researcher at Stanford for DARPA and the U.S. Air Force. He was one of the founders of Xift, and he later worked at IBM. Today his research in the area of search architecture and relevance methods is truly groundbreaking and is at the heart of Cuil, the search engine he cofounded with his wife, Anna, a former Google employee.

SM: Tom, take us back to where your journey starts.

TC: I am from Ireland. I went to college at Trinity College, Dublin. I was in Ireland in 1990, when it was in the midst of a deep recession. >>>

Entrepreneurship Forum with Simply Hired and Dimdim

On January 14th, we will be collaborating with Dimdim and Simply Hired to host an entrepreneurship forum for job seekers who are considering entrepreneurship. More on this here, including registration details. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Jimmy Beans Wool

My regular readers know that one of the aims of both Entrepreneur Journeys and this blog is to promote entrepreneurship as way to take control of one’s future. In service of this aim, in 2009 the blog will continue to feature stories of people who were laid off from their jobs and made what is often a confidence-bruising event into an opportunity to pursue projects they were passionate about while creating jobs and wealth. Jimmy Beans Wool is one such example. >>>

From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 7)

SM: Since you have set up the company as an equity-based structure, you are going to have to exit it. If you were going to keep it you would have needed a different structure.

MM: Definitely. We would like to sell the company as a strategic acquisition to a company that can make use of the technology. The kind of companies we are interested in are ones we naturally do partnerships with. >>>

From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera (Part 6)

SM: What was your ultimate design goal?

MM: The first problem we aimed to solve was how to make a re-transmission machine, a control system that retransmits data at a rate that matches the channel capacity for any packet loss rate over the channel and any delay. That was our design goal. >>>

EJ1: Book Deal with Hachette India

Indian readers: you have been asking me about the availability of Entrepreneur Journeys in India. Well, on January 2, I signed the contract with Hachette India. Hachette will be publishing EJ1, and the book will be available in India by the end of February. Thank you for your patience. >>>

IIT Kharagpur Esummit 2009

I had the pleasure of visiting IIT Kharagpur on January 2 to give the opening lecture at the Entrepreneurship Summit 2009 on Entrepreneurship Opportunities in India. Here’s Shrey Goyal blogging about the event. >>>