Every once in a while,

Every once in a while, I am bowled over by the changes made in our lives by the digital revolution. Although health care is universally said to be behind the power curve in its use of technology (I�ve railed about the lack of patient accessible electronic medical records for years), the…

In the World of Startups,

In the World of Startups, it’s Darwin all the Way

In February 2004, KnoWatt, Inc. a three-year-old Arizona company, underwent a reorganization through which the Company received an angel investment of $200,000-the first outside funding the company had ever…

The days of Canadian snowbirds

The days of Canadian snowbirds and real estate investors are behind us. I can remember
when the real estate investors descended on Arizona in the �80s; I had a wonderful
madman, Barry Kaplan, as a client. Barry owned innumerable acres of farmland around
91st Avenue and Bell…

This past summer, I switched

This past summer, I switched from a Windows laptop to a Mac Powerbook G4. I love it. OS 10.3 is a cool operating system. The machine never freezes or crashes. Airport is a wonderful wireless network product. And the Mac syncs seamlessly with the 1400 songs on my IPOD. It’s…

Stealthmode Partners, in case you

Stealthmode Partners, in case you didn�t know it, is an accelerator for early stage companies and companies in transition. Almost everyone I see during the business day is an entrepreneur of some sort. I love entrepreneurs; they�re the only people with whom I feel…

The AlwaysOn Innovation Summit had,

The AlwaysOn Innovation Summit had, in addition to the usual panels, a series of CEO pitches, in which CEOs of tech companies presented their investor pitches to judges, who were instructed to judge them according to certain criteria on a five-point system. It was…

Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens, Hilo, HI

Will Technology Lower Health Care

Will Technology Lower Health Care Costs?

For the past six months, I��ve been working with Byron Davies of the Medical Informatics Department at Arizona School of Health Sciences (a unit of A.T. Still University of Osteopathic Medicine) under a…

What is 602.412.3315?

No, it�s not a Jeopardy answer. It�s the inadvertent new phone number for Stealthmode Partners. By �inadvertent,� I mean we didn�t intend to change office phone numbers; for years, I�ve paid extra to avoid doing so. Still, you had best replace the old phone number (602.331.0997) in your…

Although it’s still going on,

Although it’s still going on, Sundance 2004 is over for me except for the afterglow. It’s always a fascinating experience, and it has only become more so with the further progress of digital technology. For the first time, digital video can be shot in something called “24P,”…