The report from Lux research gives a classification of the three thousand odd patents that were submitted in Nanotech. * Dendrimers pose the biggest question mark, scoring low on white space and freedom from entanglement for all commercially significant applications. A large number of relevant claims have been assigned from pioneer Dow to one start-up company, Dendritic Nanotechnologies. * Quantum dots have particularly knotty entanglement for general claims that cover the materials themselves and not any specific application.

Neurological implantation by Robert Fischell envisions a future where chips can monitor and cure a lot of mental disorders ! . Looking at his history of inventions, he might really pull off this stuff in to a market which he estimates to be a multi-billion dollar business.

Will Price writes on his lessons from steve ballmer : technical innovation with impact protected IP (patent portfolio) market understanding engineering excellence alignment with sales capacity (can you sell it?, do you know how to sell it?) timing and tenaciousness understanding of value chain and how to partner to win

Woot.com is a modern Internet success story, with tens of thousands of subscribers and millions of dollars in annual sales. And yet woot doesn’t advertise and has just a few dedicated employees. How did it do it? Woot sells only one item a day. It is not trying to out-Amazon Amazon. Instead, it tells a very compelling story, and that story is easy to believe and easy to spread. Every day, starting at midnight, it offers exactly one product at a great discount.

I stumbled on to a nice blog( Will Price) which gives an insight in to the way in which sales and revenue model needs to be designed to use and pitch to the investors. Sales Forecasting: In this model, future bookings are NOT a function of market share, size, and penetration rates ($500m market x .005 penetration, or $2.5m) but rather of how many mature sales reps are in the company and the expected sales rep quota and productivity.