Episode 127: Idea-2-Product and Your Health

Episode 127 originally broadcast on November 10, 2007

The School of Business for November 10, 2007

Russ and John champion entrepreneurship better than the other guys as they present The Best Stuff, including: BusinessMakers Quote of the Week - motivating the troops with Paul Hawken; This Week in Business History presents things that go round and round; Navigating Business Jargon - buzzwords and technospeak you need to be trendy; and Dumbest Moments in Business History - Vonage's bad marketecture.

Talent from UT Austin's Idea-2-Product Competition

Erica O'Grady interviews S. Michael McCorquodale, founder and CTO of Mobius Microsystems. McCorquodale used technology based on his dissertation work to enter 10 academic competitions - and won 9 of them! - to collect seed capital to launch his company. His revolutionary semi-conductor could change the future of radio-frequency architecture.

Ruba Borno and Tzeno Galchev, representing Potentia, are developing forms of sustainable energy using natural sources. Borno, a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at University of Michigan, has developed a process to generate electrical power scavenged from the environment via evaporation. Tzeno Galchev, also a PhD candidate, is developing processes to transform kinetic energy (vibrations) into electrical power. Potentia has a patent but not yet a business plan.

UT's first place winner, Michael Callahan, founder of Ambient Corp., has developed "Audeo," a communication interface that captures neurological info from the brain and translates it into speech without requiring physical movement. To date, Callahan has supported his work through academic competitions and hopes to launch his technology into a company.

Flashback - Web Golinkin

Flashback with the BusinessMakers to December 2006 and an interview with Web Golinkin, CEO of RediClinic LLC. RediClinic offers affordable medical services from locations inside select H-E-B and Wal-Mart locations across four states. In this segment, Golinkin explains how a small, worksite health-screening company grew to the major medical organization it is today.