Thursday, February 24, 2005
I have been very quiet on cyber blogspace the last 3 days. It’s not
that I have nothing to contribute to my blog, but I was simply
overwhelmed by a business proposal that I need to compose for the 50k competition
that was due earlier today. 2 days ago, I was contacted by a
semiconductor research scientist at MIT whom I met at last week's 50k
smoozing session about his interest in entering the 50k with me. I
wasreally planning to enter the 50k competition next year when I would
be better prepared for the competition after completing a few essential
management classes. But the scientist's idea was simply too good to
pass up. Our idea for the competition is to create a business venture
to commercialize semiconductor material that is based on his research.
After all these years working in the wafer fab as a software engineer,
I actually learned more about semiconductor in the past 2 days while
writing the executivesummary for the 50k entry than I ever did in my
entire career at Analog Devices. You are generally more motivated to
learn new things in graduate school while you tend to work on a
need-to-know basis unless it's a task that you are directly responsible
for.
I was glad that our team had managed to submit our entry successfully
by the deadline. I'll cross my fingers and hope that our business
proposal will go make it to the finals, which should make the 50k
experience much more interesting. Regardless, this is a great
educational venture for me whether we win or not.