Lies, Damn Lies, and Startup PR

Observations from an engineer on the world of venture capital and startups

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Moving to Substack

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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...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Sad News

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

uBeam and MEMS Issue

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 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...
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Monday, July 12, 2021

Dead Startup Toys

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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...
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Friday, May 7, 2021

Travel - Then vs Now

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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...
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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

My Spy in uBeam

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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...
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Monday, May 3, 2021

It's an ex-uBeam...

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Just shy of its 10th birthday and with between $40 and $48 million of investment (estimated), it appears uBeam (recently Sonic Energy ) has ...
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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Quite the 18 Months

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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...
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Friday, April 30, 2021

SBIR – Non Dilutive Funding for Your Company

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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...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Talking to Journalists

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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 ...
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An engineer with a wide variety of interests, whose recent experiences have given him a very cynical view of the startup/VC/media ecosystem and the damaging consequences of it to our society. Interested in discussions about the dark underbelly of it all. I have no financial interest, long or short, in any of the companies I mention (except the company I cofounded, Acoustiic). Everything written here, unless explicitly stated otherwise, is purely my own personal opinion. And my name is Paul Reynolds, unfortunately best known for being former VP Engineering at uBeam.
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