In 1937, 24-year old Malcolm McLean (later changed to Malcom) delivered a load from the South to the New Jersey docks for export. He had been in the trucking business for two years. The rural North Carolina native was running a gas station when he learned he could make $5 a load to truck the […]Read More
AKSHAY SABHIKHI BRINGS PRACTICAL AI TO THE MARKETPLACE By Dacia Rivers While most GPS applications serve only as roadmaps, Waze also uses consumer-supplied data to warn drivers of potential obstacles such as speed traps, highway construction or debris on the road ahead. Austin’s Akshay Sabhikhi says that with his company, CognitiveScale, he’s setting out to […]Read More
DR. CLAY JOHNSTON AIMS TO TRAIN PHYSICIAN LEADERS TO FIX A BROKEN MEDICAL SYSTEM For entrepreneurs, nothing compares to the feeling of building a vision from the ground up. For Dr. Clay Johnston, the dean of the new Dell Medical School at the University of Texas-Austin, that vision is becoming a reality as the first […]Read More
The Product Everyone wants the best for their baby, especially when it comes to anything that could have a potential impact on an infant’s health — and that’s how Alyson Eberle stumbled onto an untapped market in the baby care industry. After becoming a mother, Eberle was looking for fresh baby food for her daughter […]Read More
HOW DO YOU BUILD A CULTURE OF INNOVATION WHERE THE BEST IDEA WINS RATHER THAN THE SAME IDEA? “Fear and caution are the killers of creativity, so it’s the job of leadership to encourage and applaud wildcatting. But while still keeping an eye on the scale of investment and the likelihood of future returns.” “To […]Read More