Random Musings from the Warped Minds of Jonathan Goff, Ken Murphy, John Hare, and Kirk Sorensen
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship on Apr 27th, 2012
Here was a fun article from Forbes on business development for startups (“Biz Dev is a Clever Name for Dirty Work“). My favorite quote: I get the impression, from a lot of these biz dev’ers, that they think of biz dev as fun and sexy. One minute you’re grabbing lunch with Ron Conway and Ashton [...]
Posted in Administrivia, Business, Commercial Space, Entrepreneurship on Apr 4th, 2012
It takes slightly crazy people to make big changes. These same people generally have tough lives. It’s a lifestyle choice. –Iain McClatchie (who runs the Ambivalent Engineer blog)
Posted in Business, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Politics on Oct 17th, 2011
I was reading an interesting article the other day that had to do with the OWS movement giving some data on the background of the “top 1%” and the “top 0.5%”. Can’t say I agree with everything in this article, but it was still worth a read. What really stood out to me though was [...]
Posted in Air Force, Altius Space Machines, Business, Entrepreneurship, Propellant Depots, Tuggery on Dec 18th, 2010
Earlier this week, Colin Doughan posted the first post in what should hopefully be a fun series of posts on the business case of servicing the Iridium satellites over on his excellent Space Business Blog. As he mentioned at the start of the post, I’ve been working with him on this for some time, but [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, NASA, Space Development on Feb 20th, 2008
In addition to the working groups, there were several speakers throughout the conference. While there most ideas presented at space conferences aren’t particularly new, there were a few ideas from the various speakers (and from conversations I had at the conference) that I thought were worth mentioning. This may be a bit random, but I’m [...]