As I noted in August, I am committed to ensuring that MTI continues to function as a vital lynchpin in helping to “encourage, promote, stimulate and support research and development activity leading to the commercialization of new products and services” in Maine. I hope you feel, as I do, that MTI has functioned proficiently during… Read more »
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Maine’s Fall Conference Circuit: Rebellion, Trust and Failure
John Maeda, design partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins, has called conferences “the new college” – a place where people are mixed together from different disciplines, having real discussions, under one roof with few distractions. This fall, Maine has been blessed with a number of opportunities to learn, connect and grow through conferences – from MTI’s… Read more »
R, D + C: How can MTI help Maine get better at commercializing great ideas? Part 2
by Betsy Peters, Entrepreneur in Residence Part 2: Customer Discovery (See Part 1 here) To be successful in the innovation and entrepreneurship arena often requires us to place the rational and analytical in services to the intuitive and inspirational. Vision is critical, but for a vision to manifest into a successful venture, an entrepreneur must… Read more »
R, D + C: How can MTI get better at commercializing great ideas?
by Betsy Peters, Entrepreneur in Residence Too many of Maine’s promising start-up companies struggle with the “ditch of death”. That’s the gap that opens up somewhere around when a vision has manifested into some version of a sellable product or service and when the founding team has enough customer or market knowledge to either grow… Read more »