By Scott Meacham In building a startup pipeline, keep it simple. Occam’s razor (also known as the law of parsimony) is a principle attributed to William of Ockham, a Franciscan friar and philosopher born around 1288. William did not originate the problem-solving model named for him; however, he practiced it relentlessly. Plus he was aRead more
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The Tech Tribune has rated what it calls the six best tech startups in Oklahoma City. Check it out. Spoiler alert: Here’s a rundown of the companies Monscierge Exaptive Tailwind Safety Skills TokenEx BlyncSync TechnologiesRead more
Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Back in the days of territorial Oklahoma, there was a natural friction between the rancher and the farmer. The rancher wanted open ranges for cattle to roam. The farmer fenced off his acreage to keep livestock from trampling his crops. The songwriting team of Rodgers and Hammerstein madeRead more
By Jack Money Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. A startup technology or medical company based in Oklahoma needed real luck in finding the capital it needed to propel it into the big leagues before 1998. But then, i2E was created. And, during the following 19 years, state, federal and private money the organizationRead more
Gutenberg adapted the principles of the wine press and used it as the foundation of the first printing press. His innovation became a perfect example of a concept called exaptation, which is taking an existing idea and repurposing it for use as something else. That’s the concept behind Oklahoma City’s Exaptive, a startup with a mission to facilitate serendipity. Exaptive does that by enabling the manipulation of large amounts of data so that diverse, disparate data sets can be synthesized, analyzed, and used as the foundation for new ideas.
An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City notable home-grown startups in Innovation Magazine Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America Accele BioPharma (founded in 2011) — Biotechnology business accelerator located in the University Research Park, formed to create a capital-efficient mechanism to identify, finance and manage groundbreaking early stage life science technologies. http://accelebio.com Analytical Research Laboratories/DNA Solutions/The KupiecRead more
An Emerging Tech Center: Oklahoma City For Entrepreneurs, Oklahoma City is, well, OK By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2016 | Innovation America Actually, it’s way better than OK, having developed into an impressive technology center from what was once not much. Oklahoma City was cloaked in a depressing vibe in the early 1990s. Downtown retailRead more
New year is a time to seize momentum on diversifying Oklahoma’s economy By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015, The Oklahoma Publishing Company It’s that time of the year again — a time for facing forward while looking back at what has occurred over the past year. In the world of startups, there’s no time toRead more
Dr. Elaine Hamm, vice president, Accele Biopharma Inc., will lead the students in the Who Wants to Be workshop where they will learn the basics of writing and presenting a business plan, including what investors are looking for in an entrepreneur.
Oklahoma City has been named the No. 1 city worth moving to for entrepreneurs who want to launch a startup by Entrepreneur.com.
WeGoLook won the overall award at The Journal Record’s Innovator of the Year event Wednesday.
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. There are 253 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads. The average age of those cars is 11.4 years. Most of us intend to keep our vehicles in good operating condition, and manufacturers have built in more and more monitoring systems to help. Cars andRead more
i2E Inc. recently led a $1.825 million investment in Oklahoma City-based Exaptive, Inc., whose software platform helps data scientists, software developers and researchers collaborate and experiment with data and analysis techniques.
i2E, Inc. recently led a $1.825 million investment in Oklahoma City-based Exaptive, Inc., a company whose software platform enables collaboration between data scientists, software developers and researchers.
Dave King sees data the way proto-birds once used downy temperature-regulating panels to glide and fly. When an attribute that developed to serve one function is co-opted to for another, it’s called exaptation
