Doug Engelbart’s invention of the modern mouse, along with Xerox’s contibution of the trackball, was such a phenomenal success after the computer itself, that for every household that has a computer, we can almost automatically assume that they hold on a mouse.
 
Nevertheless, apparently the idea of the mouse did not take off until much [...]

Plug n Play Tech Center is a incubator for start-up. Various company such as google, pay-pal were first establish in Plug and Play. Plug and Play provide various essentials that were critical to the success of many start-ups.
1) Plug and Play provided the networking necessary for start-ups to get their employee and funding
2) Plug and [...]

Doug Engelbart, born in 1925, is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. First of all, I cannot help but to feel ashamed of my ignorance to such a prominent figure in the human history. And as I explore his personalities, I realized the many similarities between us yet as I probe further, I [...]

iLEAD was fortunate to have a chance to visit HP, which is the largest technology company in the world and the largest seller of PC and electronics. I feel that our visit to SV would not be complete without visiting HP, because HP is considered the founder of the Silicon Valley and its culture today. [...]

NANOGRAM

Introduction
Nanogram Corporation is a company which specializes in production of nanomaterials. Nanomaterials refer to materials which are in the range of 1-100nm in size. At this quantum level, nanomaterials behave very differently from macro scale; for instance, zinc oxide obtains strong oxidative capability which is able to kill bacteria at this scale.

Brief History
Nanogram [...]

Maple Investments
The talk by Mike Maples was a sharing session about pursuing your career and life as a whole. As an entrepreneur, it is important to pursue your own passion in your own unique way rather than following the  ways of other people around you. 
Mike shared about his past experiences and challenges on starting his [...]

IDEO is a design consultancy formed in 1991.The company helps design products, services, environments, and digital experiences.IDEO has worked on thousands of projects for a large number of clients in the consumer, computer, medical, furniture, toy, office and automotive industries. Notable examples are Apple’s first mouse, Microsoft’s second mouse, and Steelcase’s Leap Chair.IDEO has been [...]

Hi!
We had a group discussion just now after dinner in the hotel & each group was supposed to reflect on a particular company/event that we had attended during the past three days.
So my group, Yean Chert, Sheena, May, Jefferson & I, decided to discuss our trip to NanoGram Corporation which bridges the gap between nanomaterials [...]

Background Information
Maples investment is a private fund aimed at providing outstanding entrepreneurs an opportunity to realize their dreams.
 
It focuses on a Micro-cap strategy of investments of $150,000 to $500,000. This strategy is a fundraising model that connects the initial seed money raised from traditional “Angel” investors and the much larger investments that characterize traditional Venture [...]

NOC Office, at Mountain View, California. 7pm, Tuesday 9 Dec 08.

The bus ride from Stanford University to the NOC office seemed to be a pretty long ride. Since morning, we had visited Nanogram and attended “The Mother of all Demos”. Going to meet Peter for dinner with his friends after an exhausting day was [...]