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BrewDog: Innovators in the Brewery

August 10, 2010

A few weeks ago, one of the engineers forwarded a link on a BBC article about dead animals being used for beer bottles.  BrewDog, a small brewery located in Fraserburgh in Scotland introduced a limited supply of  The End of History beer with the bottle is encased around a taxidermy animal.  Now, my initial reaction [...]

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Venture Capital Investing Increases in 2010

July 28, 2010

Last week, I attended MedVentures 2010, a regional, early stage investment and education conference focused on the rapidly growing medical technology sector sponsored by North Texas Enterprise Center for Medical Technology (NTEC) in Frisco, Texas.  Ten companies were selected to present their companies and ideas to a panel of angel investors and venture capital firms. [...]

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IPA: Like It … Or Not

July 27, 2010

To begin, I would like to wish one our engineers, Alan, a speedy recovery.  Alan is an avid cyclist and was in an accident last week and broke his collarbone.  He will be out of commission for a while as he recovers.   We all hope he heals quickly and gets back to work, since the [...]

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Mentoring Future Generations

July 20, 2010

Whether you’ve met me once or have known me for years, you may have noticed I have many passions – product innovation, entrepreneurship, family, friends, and sailing.  The order may change depending on the day, but what ever I am doing, I do with passionate enthusiasm. Last week, Paragon had the privilege of hosting once [...]

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Passion for Innovation

July 7, 2010

As we prepare to celebrate our 20th anniversary this fall, I have spent a lot of time reflecting on the clients and projects we’ve been blessed with over the years. This reflection has given me new insight on where we’ve been and where we are headed. In 1990 when I started the company, I saw [...]

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Don’t Throw Away That Old TTL Data Book!

July 7, 2010

We live in a design world where vendors keep pushing us to higher and higher integration components, but we ran across a couple of applications recently where it makes sense to use some VERY old technology. We have two client projects where we were considering using serial I/O expanders.  Microchip and NXP both have some [...]

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Red Brick Blonde

July 7, 2010

This week’s microbrew was Red Brick Blonde from Atlanta Brewing Company, the oldest operational brewery in the state of Georgia.  Red Brick Blonde was a Gold Medalist winner at the 2007 Great American Beer Festival in the Golden or Blonde Ale category. The taste of beer, as you know, is very subjective.  In a write [...]

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