Archive for 'Start Up Companies' Category
A Happier and Healthier New Year?
With the Season’s festivities now over, many people turn their thoughts to creating – and trying to stick to – a whole series of New Year resolutions… many of which are normally based around creating a happier and healthier year ahead. Drink less, stop smoking, eat better and exercise regularly must be amongst the most [...]
The answer is blowing in the wind….*
Strangely enough, running an innovative product development company isn’t all about developing innovative products. But if you employ the kind of people we do….the type capable of really making a difference to the way next generation products are developed, then a by-product is that they rarely stop thinking about alternative ways of taking technology and [...]
Cambridge White Space Trial – first tweet over White Space by Cambridge Consultants?
One of the progenitors of innovative wireless product development is the adoption of new standards …The first radio concept along these lines is the use of the white space in the TV spectrum on allocation and time dependent basis to provide services such as rural broadband and yesterday we sent the first tweet over a white space link from our building at Cambridge Consultants to a subscriber terminal in Cottenham.
Choices in sourcing product development
So you are planning to conduct a new product development. You’ve quite a number of choices:
You could in source – i.e.do it yourself if you have the capability
You could in source the design but augment your team
Ventures and Spin-Outs: Its about stand out talented people
I have always prided myself on how a career at Cambridge Consultants is a great grounding to be a technology entrepreneur as has been demonstrated with our numerous successful spin off companies and ventures (Domino http://www.domino-printing.com, Xaar www.xaar.com, CSR www.csr.com, ,….). Its that mixture of exposure to technology, product development and business issues that is such [...]
Accelerating Start Up Companies
Start up companies can grow at much faster rates than established companies because of their ability to innovate in a way that transforms markets and so any government wanting to improve the economy is well advised to think on how it can accelerate start up companies.
