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Pet Project Making it Big - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. PET PROJECT MAKING IT BIG. Skip Coomber, 53, a Rancho Santa Fe attorney to “ultra-high-networth” clients, and a serial entrepreneur of tech and retail companies, did what can be done for fun and ultimate status, at least in California. He started a winery: Coomber Family Ranch Wines. At the recent San Diego International Wine Festival, Coomber talked to the U-T about how he did it. (Then we drank the wines.). Q: What was it like to get a 95-point rating with your first batch? A: I al...

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Partner at Domain Seeks out Innovators - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. PARTNER AT DOMAIN SEEKS OUT INNOVATORS. PARTNER AT DOMAIN SEEKS OUT INNOVATORS. Q: What do you like about San Diego? A: What I love about the San Diego environment is that it is really collaborative. We could have opened an office in San Francisco 23 years ago, and we would have been one in 40 VCs competing to find new opportunities. Q: Why are you so optimistic about biotech and medical device companies? Q: How is Domain different? A: We go for the problem and decide if the solution...

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A Drone of One's Own: Maybe Someday - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. A DRONE OF ONE'S OWN: MAYBE SOMEDAY. Drones are flying high. 3D Robotics, started by kid genius Mexican engineer Jordi Muñoz, now 27, and Wired magazine visionary Chris Anderson, 52, just received $30 million in additional investor funding. The company is expanding to 100 employees spread among current engineering headquarters on Convoy Court in San Diego, manufacturing facilities in Tijuana, and sales and marketing in Berkeley, with capacity expected to double. He holds up an octaco...

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Former Qualcomm Exec's Future on Tech - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. FORMER QUALCOMM EXEC'S FUTURE OF TECH. Andrew Viterbi, co-founder and former longtime chief technology officer of Qualcomm, the giant San Diego company that creates the guts of the world’s cellphones, devised the Viterbi Algorithm, a mathematical formula for separating signal from noise. The Viterbi Algorithm has made cellphone communication possible, as well as the tracking of missiles, and even high-speed DNA analysis. Technology: what could slow us down, surprise, and scare-.

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Prescription for Less Medicine - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. Prescription for less medicine. After only five years as an internist at Scripps Clinic, Dr. David Clayton could tell what was wrong with many of his patients before they even took off their shirts. They were men, 50 to 80 years old, overweight, with high blood pressure and bad cholesterol — the perfect trifecta for the chronic metabolic disease currently bloating America. If they did nothing, they might be dead before their time, candidates for diabetes and stroke. As an MD, Clayton...

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Lucier Done with Life Tech, But not with Living - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. Lucier done with life tech, but not with living. Greg Lucier has made the 21st century — the biological century — into a wise business proposition. How did he do it — drive up the business of Life from $778 million a year in revenue in 2003 to $3.8 billion in 2012 — and what does he plan to do next? What’s next sounds like the fun part. Ldquo;That is emblematic of the enormous progress made in 20th-century physical sciences. Our ability to harness the movement of electrons allows...

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Qualcomm Counsel Talks Innovation - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. La Jolla Country day: ENTREPRENEURIAL LECTURE SERIES. Ldquo;Innovation Night” at the La Jolla Playhouse was both a sad and a raucous affair this year. But raucous, too, because the gala opening play was “Side Show,” which is about two female circus performers, conjoined twins, not unlike innovative technologies and the future of San Diego, someone laughed at intermission. Before the show, Intellectual Capital sat down with Rosenberg at Qualcomm headquarters to talk theater, licensing...

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Entrepreneurial Lectures - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. The country day entrepreneurial lectures. The first lecture for the La Jolla Country Day Lecture series curated by INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL’s Steve Chapple (middle) under the tutelage of Chris Schuck (left) Country Day’s Master of School, with (on right) Gateway computer founder and serial entrepreneur Ted Waitt. TED WAITT TO STUDENTS: AIM HIGH, WORK HARD. Entrepreneurial Leadership Lecture Series. Which will bring a series of speakers to school to trace their remarkable careers. His fat...

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Venter on Science, Adrenaline, and the meaning of Life - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. Venter on science, adrenaline, and the meaning of life. Darwin the poodle bursts into Craig Venter’s capacious new office on Torrey Pines Road just as he is explaining the meaning of life. Ldquo;Once it’s in the computer,” Venter says, “it can be sent as, uh, email.”. Life at the speed of light — the title, in fact, of his new science best-seller. But it’s a concept of great — if not revolutionary — commercial potential. Ldquo;How we understand our own selves, and how we work with ou...

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Making Tech Transfer Work for Universities - Intellectual capital

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What We Are Reading. MAKING TECH TRANSFER WORK FOR UNIVERSITIES. Tech transfer is about dancing robots and curing brain cancer. Google and Gatorade, sleep apnea and gene-splicing. It’s how inventions and ideas — intellectual property — move out of university labs and get translated into commercial products and startup companies. Some $2.5 billion in licensing fees flowed to U.S. universities in 2010, with nearly 600 new companies formed. Dr Gregory Stein’s startup Curtana licensed drug candidates f...