stephenfleming

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by stephenfleming 13y ago
Alright, I guess I'm the voice of the GT Establishment here. I'm certainly not going to argue with anyone who says "A year ago, I’d hardly heard of startups. Neither had just about anyone at Georgia Tech." But I'll
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by stephenfleming 17y ago
I remain amused by the casual bigotry exhibited by so many Silicon Valley denizens that OF COURSE all the smart, motivated, ambitious entrepreneurs will move to the Valley. Most of them would be incensed if a colleague displayed a comparab
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by stephenfleming 17y ago
And, of course, Shotput Ventures DID hold a Demo Day, on August 10 in one of my auditoriums, and packed it to standing-room-only. I didn't check IDs for state of origin, but there were certainly a bunch of angel and VC investors in the room
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by stephenfleming 17y ago
In the near term, plug-in hybrids with flex-fuel engines, plus lots and lots of nuclear power plants, followed by space-based solar power satellites in the medium term. Fusion in the long term (defined as "after I'm dead, dammit").
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by stephenfleming 17y ago
Nope, got plenty of Oreos, right here. Other people may have looked at the unfavorable characteristics and conclude "fuel cells are bad." That would be sloppy and stupid. My message would be that "HYDROGEN fuel cells are bad, especially fo
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by stephenfleming 17y ago
Precisely. (Thank you for chiming in. I'm the author of the presentation in question, and am completely surprised to find it here on Hacker News nearly two years after publication!)
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by stephenfleming 17y ago
Plenty of startup ideas, plenty of money, plenty of entrepreneurs in Atlanta. Not enough venture capital, but that's becoming less and less relevant to many classes of startups.
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by stephenfleming 19y ago
Practice in front of a live audience... even if just your roommates. Videotape yourself presenting and watch it (painful). I just put some points on presentation materials at http://academicvc.blogspot.com/2008/04/raising-capital-part-..
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by stephenfleming 19y ago
Yes. My "main" desktop machine died several months ago. I popped out the hard disk, put it in an external FireWire enclosure, and I plug it into my MacBook Pro when I'm at home. So now I'm 100% reliant on the laptop, and perfectly happy.