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Tomorrow's smart grid

At the Churchill Club's 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, venture capitalists discuss whether the smart grid and smart meter trends will continue to produce innovation and what the motivating factors will be.

Tags: Grid, Venture Capital, Finance, Financing Startups, Churchill Club, 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, Smart Grid, Ann Winblad, Steve Jurvetson, Joe Schoendorf, Ram Shriram, Jason Pontin

Videos 2009-05-29

IT matters most, but there are other techs to watch - and fear

Last week, at MITs Emerging Technologies Conference, I decided to corner Jason Pontin who is not only the editor-in-chief and publisher of MITs Technology Review Magazine, but hes also the executive producer for all intents and purposes of the conference thats held annually in Cambridge, MA. Given the way the...

Tags: Pontin

Blog posts 2006-10-03

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Churchill Club: 11th annual top 10 tech trends

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series a panel of experts debate the top technology trends. This members only event included the following speakers: Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson  Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures  Joe Schoendorf, Partner, Accel...

Tags: Founder, Podcasts, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

BillG sings blues over open standards, becoming obsolete, Winblad says

Venture capitalist Ann Winblad said open source and open standards has made life tough for Microsoft’s co-founder and other kingpins that used to rule the software industry. “The beauty of the software industry today is that not one, two or three companies that control the agenda. This...

Tags: Software, Open Standard, Bill Gates, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Winblad: Open Source VC Funding Is Not Drying Up

In spite of a recent slowdown in venture investment, open source remains high on the list of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Ann Winblad, a partner in the prominent San Francisco VC that funded MuleSource, said at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference Thursday that the money will keep...

Tags: Software, Winblad, MuleSource, Open Source, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2007-09-27

Dartmouth engineering students go green, go fast, go everywhere, in balanced fashion

Earlier this week, I participated in a panel discussion at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering where we covered the challenges to science and technology journalists in separating the truth from the hype. Hype in science and technology you say? There's no hype! It's all truth! He he. ...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-18