Technology – Helge Seetzen

Entrepreneurship , venture capital series

Start-up Fundamentals

A game-changing idea is only one of the ingredients you will need to launch a successful new business. Without the right team and a commitment to ongoing fundraising, your brilliant new venture will flounder. This article is the first of five in a series by a venture capital expert who...

January 6, 2015February 9, 2018

Entrepreneurship

3 Simple Steps for Pitching Your Technology

One of the pitfalls of many tech entrepreneurs is pitching their solution simply and clearly. What is it? What does it do? Is it actually useful? Often, we’ll get stuck either trying to explain it all at once or getting too technical for our audience. We recently had an...

May 30, 2013June 30, 2017

Technology

Three Core Tech Trends

There are, in my mind, three major technology trends in this decade’s consumer electronics world: narcissism, visual realism, and naturalism in interaction. 1) Narcissism Narcissism is less interesting to TandemLaunch, but has become a major driver of our economy. We all want to be famous, we all want to...

August 2, 2012July 4, 2017

Entrepreneurship , People

The CTO Role Broken Down

The CTO fills a critical role in a technology startup. The title is really broad, and people tend to cling to different aspects of it, but what do you really need your CTO to do in a startup? Here’s a quick breakdown for aspiring Chief Technology (or Technical) Officers....

May 22, 2012July 4, 2017

IP & Tech Transfer

Gaps in the Research, Development, and Engineering Chain

I talk a lot about bridging the ‘technology transfer gap’, but there is more than one place where technologies fall to their doom in the development of a new product. When you define each stage in the process (Research, Development and Engineering) you start to see that there are...

January 10, 2012July 5, 2017

How To Spot Technology Trends , Technology

How to Spot Technology Trends II: Replacing ‘Impossible’ with ‘Never Before Possible’

This is part 2 of a post on spotting technology trends. In the last post I explained that the best place to look for technology trends is my mother’s demographic (a mainstream demographic, with disposable income, that is not very technologically savvy). In this post, I describe the mindset required...

December 6, 2011July 6, 2017

How To Spot Technology Trends , Technology

How to Spot Technology Trends I: Mother Knows Best

Spotting technology trends is a subject that is at the forefront of our minds at TandemLaunch. While I can’t offer any silver bullet solutions, this will be the first of a 2 post series on the subject. I look forward to some good discussion on the topic. When you...

December 1, 2011July 6, 2017

IP & Tech Transfer

Five Steps for University Inventors

For researchers working in technical fields, inventions are to be expected. Unfortunately, many university inventors receive little, if any, training on what to do once they have an invention on their hands. Our team has put together a handy FAQ to help orient inventors to the world of university-industry...

November 3, 2011July 7, 2017

Entrepreneurship , Tech Entrepreneurship

Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Different processes, different people

Invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship are words frequently thrown around by politicians, theorists, and entrepreneurs alike to generally describe the act of bringing a product or idea into the world. While easy to confuse, each concept is distinct and requires specific skills. When it’s time to choose the right...

October 25, 2011July 7, 2017

Entrepreneurship

Setting a Meeting on Fire

A few years ago, during my first start-up adventures at Sunnybrook Technologies, a prototype fire taught me two important tech entrepreneur lessons: 1. Good entrepreneurs don’t panic. 2. Adversity is an opportunity, not a problem. We had just finished the first prototype of what would become the world’s first...

September 14, 2011July 4, 2017

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