Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup PR

After a long period of being too busy to post, I'll be starting more regular posts, but I'll be moving to Substack. Blogger just was...

I recently learned that Lee Gomes, the journalist who published the most detailed and accurate report on issues around uBeam , had died. I ...

 A recent post by a former uBeam engineer made an interesting comment: The biggest annoyance at uBeam was if the demo units were running wh...

For all of you that wish you could own one of the cool dead startup gadgets that gets written about here, then Dead Startup Toys will do it...

I'm fortunate enough to be fully vaccinated, so a couple weeks ago I took my first plane flight in over a year. For most of the prior 15...

Now that uBeam is dead , I can reveal a secret that I have kept close to my chest for years. You see, for some time after I left the company...

Just shy of its 10th birthday and with between $40 and $48 million of investment (estimated), it appears uBeam (recently Sonic Energy ) has ...

My last post was December 2019, putting this at nearly 18 months since I last wrote anything here. It's not for lack of interest, but si...

This is a reblog of an interview I did last year for IEEE-USA, the original can be found here . What if I told you there is a funding oppor...

Something I learned in the early days of writing this blog is "how to talk to journalists", and so I thought I'd do a post on ...