It’s been nearly two months since the beginning of our incubation partnership with TandemLaunch, and Backtrack has made some nice progress. We’re still partly in stealth mode as we work… Read more Update from the Backtrack team →
Happy 2014! I hope this coming year will bring as many exciting changes and opportunities as the last year did, and that the Backtrack / TandemLaunch partnership will continue to flourish.… Read more 2014: Caffeine counting resumption! →
This past Tuesday, Roz Warren (who writes for the NYTimes, HuffPost, and various other places) published this quite entertaining and 100% accurate story in the Times about back issues. Roz opens with a quick test that I may have to use in pitches from now on (with due credit, of course): “Are you the kind of person who will develop back problems? Take this easy test: 1. Are you alive? 2. Are you getting older? 3. Do you ever pick things up? If you answered yes to any of these… Read more Will you develop back problems? A simple test from Roz Warren →
(This post originally appeared on TechEntrepreneurship, the TandemLaunch blog, where I’ll be contributing from time to time from now on.) This post is all about a choice many people face… Read more Is grad school useful for young entrepreneurs? Guest post from TechEntrepreneurship →
I talked a few posts ago about how scientific publications might be vanity metrics in disguise– good for showing an illusion of progress, but the enemy of true breakthroughs. Here’s a quick update to that thought: Peter Higgs, the British physicist whose work was the foundation behind the recent discovery of the subatomic particle bearing his name (the Higgs Boson) and who I mentioned in that post, might agree. Speaking recently with the British newspaper The Guardian, Higgs expressed his belief that “no university would employ him in today’s academic… Read more Publications and Vanity Metrics: an update →
Are you a driven, entrepreneurial problem-solver looking for cutting-edge technology to start Montreal’s next big company? Or maybe you’re a veteran coder, looking for new problems to work on with new people? Or maybe you’re a PhD student who has invented something awesome, if only there was a way to commercialize it? Well if you’re any of those people, or wish you were, you should come to the TandemLaunch Pitch Day, in partnership with FounderProject, coming up on December 11th at our soon-to-be new office space. TandemLaunch is currently looking… Read more TandemLaunch Pitch Day →
I’m very pleased to announce that BackTrack, the tool for back pain patients I outlined in a previous post, has taken some significant steps towards becoming a real product! I’ve… Read more BackTrack + TandemLaunch →
Are scientific publications a vanity metric? Last week, while giving an informal talk about Disruptive Science as part of the McGill Dept. of Dentistry OHS series, an interesting thought emerged… Read more Publications and Vanity Metrics →
