Nanocomp Technologies, a portfolio company of CEI Community Ventures (a fund I manage), won Mass High Tech's New England Innovation All Star Award (for the nanotechnology category--there were fourteen other winners in other categories like social media, web, mobile, etc). Another feather in the cap of this company, that has been catching a lot of attention both locally (NH High Tech Council's Product of the Year) and nationally (Wall Street Journal's 2008 Technology Innovation Award for Materials category, NASA's Nano 50 Award in 2007). The company just yesterday completed a fully-subscribed $3M Series B financing.
The piece I wrote for Mainebiz on failure appears in this week's Providence Business News and, likely in a couple weeks, in New Hampshire Business Review; it was a cathartic piece for me as I talk about both sides of the experience of failure--that of the entrepreneur and that of the investor. Next month's "syndicated" column will be on how high growth entrepreneurship is like race car driving--hint..the VCs provide the gas and get the passenger seat next to the CEO driver. Should be out within the week in Mainebiz and a few weeks later in the other two papers.
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