Video: Rebecca Geier talks marketing for engineers

Video: Rebecca Geier talks marketing for engineers

In this video interview with me (9 minutes and 30 seconds), Rebecca Geier, a principal and co-founder of TREW Marketing explains the basics of marketing for the scientific and engineering fields. As I mentioned in my last post, Geier is firm believer in having a plan...

Rebecca Geier: Marketing 101 for Engineers

It’s a major challenge for any technologist: attracting capital and customers. It all boils down to marketing. The best ideas and the best products just won’t move unless investors and customers know about them. Marketing presents special challenges to...

100YSS: extremely long-range R&D

One of the things government can do more effectively than private enterprise is foster development of technologies that may not be profitable in the short term, if at all. Projects like the Internet and the Moon landing couldn’t have gotten off the ground with...

100 Year Starship project lifting off

It’s perhaps DARPA’s most out-there project ever: spend the next century figuring out how to build a starship. Science fiction makes it seem easy: just engage the warp drive, do a little hand waving about Johnson rods or somesuch, and make a hyperspace...