Thrive: Building successful companies in the Madison Wisconsin USA region

Three Madison Wisconsin biotech/biomedical businesses discuss what makes their business successful in the Madison Region–from a startup (FluGen), a business just about to enter clinical trials (Quintessence) and a global headquarters with an IPO (TomoTherapy).

Earthships: Building Communities Clips & Phoenix Earthship

Basically a teaser…some clips from previous episodes of the Building Communities show with a tour of the beautiful new Phoenix Earthship in Taos, New Mexico. Enjoy, and do see the links for more information, as this is not meant to be an education on Earthships! I hope to post more tours of other Earthships and more of the interview with Biotech Michael Reynolds. He is quite a pioneering, goal-driven man whose innovative biotectural design and systems is changing the world.

Employment System Mental Models in Organisation Building: Founder¿s Mental Models of Employment in Biotechnology Start-ups

Product Description
The biotechnology industry has been described as a key feature of the new knowledge economy and is expected to impact on the lives of almost everyone. The majority of biotechnology firms are founded by scientists and their organisations are characterised by high human capital density. The focus of this book is on how founders of biotechnology companies organise and build the employment system in their start-up ventures. This book adopts an integrative cognitive methodology in studying the founder¿s role in the employment system creation within their new ventures. It sets out to examine the vagaries of building biotechnology ventures around people and sets out a framework for understanding the organisation building process from the entrepreneurs’ point of view. Based on an in-depth study of three biotechnology firms and their founders, this book examines the organisation building and human resource strategies of high technology entrepreneurs. In addition, this book explores methodological issues inherent in understanding the cognitions, strategies, and organisation building of high technology entrepreneurs.

Employment System Mental Models in Organisation Building: Founder¿s Mental Models of Employment in Biotechnology Start-ups

Picking winners or building them? Alliance, intellectual, and human capital as selection criteria in venture financing and performance of biotechnology … article from: Journal of Business Venturing]

Product Description
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Business Venturing, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
In the entrepreneurial setting, financial intermediaries such as venture capital firms (VCs) are perhaps the dominant source of selection shaping the environment within which new ventures evolve. VCs affect selection both by acting as a ‘’scout” able to identify future potential and as a ”coach” that can help realize it. Despite the large literature on the role of VCs in encouraging startups, it is generally taken for granted that VCs are expert scouts and coaches, and so the ways in which VCs actually enhance startup performance are not well understood. In this study, we examine whether VCs’ emphasize picking winners or building them by comparing the effects of startups’ alliance, intellectual, and human capital characteristics on VCs decisions to finance them with the effects of the same characteristics on future startup performance. Our findings point to a joint logic that combines the roles: VCs finance startups that have strong technology, but are at risk of failure in the short run, and so in need of management expertise. Our findings thus support the belief in VC expertise, but only to a point. VCs also appear to make a common attribution error overemphasizing startups’ human capital when making their investment decisions.

Picking winners or building them? Alliance, intellectual, and human capital as selection criteria in venture financing and performance of biotechnology … article from: Journal of Business Venturing]

Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

• ISBN13: 9780470068526
• Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
• Notes:

Product Description
The world has changed radically since the first edition of this book was published in 2001. Spammers, virus writers, phishermen, money launderers, and spies now trade busily with each other in a lively online criminal economy and as they specialize, they get better. In this indispensable, fully updated guide, Ross Anderson reveals how to build systems that stay dependable whether faced with error or malice. Here?s straight talk on critical topics such as technical engineering basics, types of attack, specialized protection mechanisms, security psychology, policy, and more.Amazon.com Review
Gigantically comprehensive and carefully researched, Security Engineering makes it clear just how difficult it is to protect information systems from corruption, eavesdropping, unauthorized use, and general malice. Better, Ross Anderson offers a lot of thoughts on how information can be made more secure (though probably not absolutely secure, at least not forever) with the help of both technologies and management strategies. His work makes fascinating reading and will no doubt inspire considerable doubt–fear is probably a better choice of words–in anyone with information to gather, protect, or make decisions about.

Be aware: This is absolutely not a book solely about computers, with yet another explanation of Alice and Bob and how they exchange public keys in order to exchange messages in secret. Anderson explores, for example, the ingenious ways in which European truck drivers defeat their vehicles’ speed-logging equipment. In another section, he shows how the end of the cold war brought on a decline in defenses against radio-frequency monitoring (radio frequencies can be used to determine, at a distance, what’s going on in systems–bank teller machines, say), and how similar technology can be used to reverse-engineer the calculations that go on inside smart cards. In almost 600 pages of riveting detail, Anderson warns us not to be seduced by the latest defensive technologies, never to underestimate human ingenuity, and always use common sense in defending valuables. A terrific read for security professionals and general readers alike. –David Wall

Topics covered: How some people go about protecting valuable things (particularly, but not exclusively, information) and how other people go about getting it anyway. Mostly, this takes the form of essays (about, for example, how the U.S. Air Force keeps its nukes out of the wrong hands) and stories (one of which tells of an art thief who defeated the latest technology by hiding in a closet). Sections deal with technologies, policies, psychology, and legal matters.

Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems

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