Brinktop Seeks Technical Co-Founder

December 7, 2014

Brinktop is a new startup that we started working on 6 months ago. Milestones achieved thus far include: Significant customer discovery and customer interviews Initial product prototype built:  a DIY Android tablet kit Large prospective customers list built Team members today include: Ben Mitchell – CEO James Estes – part-time contractor Gallagher Pryor (CTO) & […]

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I Love Bug Reports

November 20, 2014

Ignore complaints from people who habitually complain. If a problem is real, you’ll hear about it from people who don’t. — Paul Graham (@paulg) November 20, 2014 Note: this does not extend to bug reports. People who habitually submit bug reports are usually right. — Paul Graham (@paulg) November 20, 2014 I love bug reports. […]

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Pickup Lines

November 18, 2014

I have been at the Supercomputing conference this week with both ArrayFire and Brinktop. As we are standing in the booth I realized that for ArrayFire we have good pickup lines we can use to start talking to anyone at the show. Do you do any CUDA or OpenCL programming? Do you use GPUs or […]

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Startup HPC Conference

November 17, 2014

Today I participated on a panel at the first startup HPC conference held in conjunction with the Supercomputing 2014 conference in New Orleans. The panel shared many insights into starting HPC companies. Here are some of the themes I repeated for this audience: The history of raising venture capital for this market, especially for middleware […]

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A Big Day for ArrayFire with Open Source Release

November 12, 2014

Today we released ArrayFire as open source (Github page and blog post announcement). We made the #3 spot on Hacker News. It has been a super exciting day for everyone on our team!   I have written several times before about the deliberations we went through to come to this decision. Check out those posts. Background […]

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The Importance of Customers Loving a Product

November 8, 2014

the obsession with “recurring revenue” has gone too far. most businesses have repeat purchasers, and people cancel SaaS subscriptions. yes, recurring revenue is great to have, but is it really worth such a huge valuation premium over “regular revenue”? fundamental issue remains: if users love the product, they will keep buying. if not, they will […]

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Thoughts on Neuroscience

November 3, 2014

During my first year of grad school, I worked in the neurolab at Georgia Tech. From there I went on to complete my PhD work in medical image processing focused on brain MRI. Over the years, I interacted a lot with brain experts. Given the recent tragedy at work, I have again been diving in […]

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Hoverboards

October 30, 2014

Ever since Back to the Future 2, hoverboards have been awesome to board-loving tech geeks like me. Some of my first impressions of hoverboards being realistic came from the back of Boys’ Life magazines that I subscribed to during my Boy Scouting years. Here is the ad that I always wanted to purchase but never […]

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Hunter vs Farmer

October 29, 2014

I have several times heard an analogy for startups that involves hunting versus farming. If you start with nothing, all you can do is hunt to get immediate food. And you may find some big animals. But they’ll mostly be small. Some days you won’t find anything. Farming is more predictable but takes time to […]

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Startups Where Scientific Research Is The Bottleneck

October 28, 2014

Many of my favorite Atlanta startups are in midtown hanging around Georgia Tech (at places like ATDC). They are highly scientific research based startups that have big opportunities to change the world. Often in those startups, the scientific research is the bottleneck. Either the researchers will make it work or they won’t. For this reason, […]

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