| 18 Jun 2005 |
Triple Bottom Line Investing
Regardless of one’s opinion, investment strategy or stock picking system, the investor or investor candidate looking to make a 'triple bottom line' investment must keep in mind that profitability cannot be forgotten. Any organization that fails to generate a profit or surplus will fail to survive. Investors and businesses may adjust their earnings expectations to allow for costs associated with ‘triple bottom line’ compliance, but they must still focus on profits.
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| 19 Jan 2000 |
Shoes of the Investor
Before receiving money from any investor, complete your own due diligence and make sure that you and they are a good match.
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| 21 May 1998 |
Through the Two-Way Looking Glass
To find new technologies, one must ignore existing products and focus on customer needs.
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| 19 Sep 1997 |
Managing Risks with Available Resources
As technologies and markets change, so must economic development activities change to remain competitive.
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| 8 Apr 1997 |
Why Venture Capital Won't Work
Many technologies face the prospect of never being commercialized due to the fact that they do not represent sufficient potential to pay the price of venture financing. Of these technologies, some, not all, may still be commercialized by transfer of the technology to an established business. Even when a technology has sufficient potential to attract and receive venture financing, the technology owner must weight the alternative benefits of technology transfer and the rewards available from this alternative.
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| 3 Dec 1996 |
An End to Software Piracy
The end of software piracy would lead to greater rewards for those who develop software and lower costs for customers.
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| 13 Sep 1996 |
Implied Warranty of Competence
Any job position will benefit from establishing standards of performance and systems to support individuals in attaining those standards.
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| 12 Sep 1996 |
Universal Design as a Step in the Development of a Technology Commercialization Strategy
In designing new products, particularly those intended for small markets like products for disabled people, consideration must be given to using modular components whose costs may be spread over a family of products in order to make each individual product affordable.
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| 9 May 1996 |
Do Programmers Have Ethics?
All professions, including programming, demand a code of conduct or they are not a profession.
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| 17 Mar 1995 |
Structuring Transfer Deals to Attract Investment
A technology transfer transaction may serve as an investment vehicle through which the costs of completing transfer activities may be funded.
Many options exist to structure a transfer deal as an investment vehicle. However, the design of the structure must take into consideration common investment practices. Presentation of the structure must answer questions regarding the risk/reward tradeoff and allow comparison with other forms of investment. In order for technology transfer to attract investment, it must demonstrate its superiority.
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| 8 Mar 1995 |
A Business Strategy for Rapid Development of Multiple Technology Opportunities
This paper presents a business solution to a common problem of technology organizations. Most technology organizations are unable to immediately address all of the market opportunities presented by the multiple applications of the technology. Each opportunity to commercialize the technology demands its own resources. Most organizations are fortunate if they can gather enough resources to adequately pursue a single opportunity. The rest of the opportunities must wait in hope that successful commercialization of the first opportunity will yield sufficient profits to fund the remainder. Even if this happens, success commonly will not come for several years. By that time, for all the remaining market opportunities, the market window may have closed, the competition may have already monopolized the market, or the patents may have expired. A need exists for a strategy that quickly and efficiently exploits all market opportunities while maximizing the rewards to the technology organization.
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