At the Demo Day for One Semester Startup, one of the best pitches came from Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe. Metcalfe, who moved to Austin in January, serves as professor of electrical engineering and director of innovation at the University of Texas at Austin. This fall, Metcalfe, who also serves as general partner of Polaris Venture […]
UT’s One Semester Startup Demo Day
December 2, 2011 by 1 Comment
During the first One Semester Startup at the University of Texas, 75 students formed 20 companies. Thursday night, the students behind those newly formed ventures pitched their startups to about 200 people, some students, university faculty, press, investors and entrepreneurs, gathered at the University of Texas stadium’s Red McCombs End Zone Club. The pitches ranged […]
Ethernet inventor wants to network startups to solve the world’s energy crisis
September 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A network of entrepreneurs will solve the energy crisis. That’s the belief of Bob Metcalfe, professor of innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, founder of 3Com and co-inventor of Ethernet, a networking standard which links computers. “The biggest lesson of the Internet that applies to energy is it was not built by incumbents […]
