The Foundry projects for SigEx will support numerous technology leaders including : SAP, Vivendi, SONY, AOL Time Warner, eBay, Cisco, IBM, Sun, Apple, Nokia, Siemens, Alcatel and international carriers. The mandate to build the new communications industry and support existing telecommunications infrastructures will be deployed with Fortune 1000 strategic customers.
The Foundry is much more than a think tank where great ideas get nurtured. The Foundry is a concentrate of "real life" so that not only the ideas, but also the teams, the technology, the revenue models and the culture are tested against real live situations to see whether they have the right to succeed in the outside world. Validation includes publications and patents, strategic customers as well as financial modeling and analysis. A short intense process creates the right competitive environment to breed excellence.
The training also includes new advanced technology methodologies such as extreme programming or user profiling and business methodologies like Real Options, Fifth Discipline and Strategic Marketing. And, let us not forget Enhanced Communications training at all layers of technologies from chips to applications. Thus, the Foundry’s re-training and job creation delivers excellence and positions the new Enhanced Communications industry on a successful path.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Sigex Ventures by Silvia Baldin
SigEx Ventures, Inc. is a private investment fund focused exclusively on the emerging Enhanced Communications industry. Using funds raised from individual (angel) investors, SigEx Ventures funds projects for the Foundry’s development programs. Thus, SigEx Ventures, in conjunction with the Foundry, enables fully-funded, viable structures for business R&D to address alpha-beta development projects for strategic customers that include global telecommunications carriers, network equipment manufacturers, information technology companies, and digital content providers. The projects developed by the Foundry are all pre-funded by the SigEx Ventures investments fund for a period of 12 to 18 months. The most successful of these may become sustainable ventures.
The principles of the Foundry by Silvia Baldin
Foundry, which is known to be an uncommonly collaborative and supportive, practice leadership school is a seriously competitive environment and you have to be ready for anything. Thus, you should eliminate any false notions in your head of a gentle work-training, graduate engineering school, or M.B.A. type experience -- which is as it should be, for in real practice world, Darwinism rules. You should understand and appreciate the unique opportunity that you have at The Foundry to be challenged on many fronts (and on many practice fields), including working with people from various backgrounds and cultures.
In that regard, you should connect with a diverse group of student-candidates from around the world whose professional experiences range from working in Boston on the automation of General Electric's Factory-of-the-Future, conducting telecommunications and advanced Linux/PHP engineering for premier U.S. real-estate private equity investors to consulting on technology systems in the insurance industry. Fortunately, many of these new friends you will meet will temper the competitiveness of The Foundry. Just as you prepare for an exam on the economics of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", a new friend of yours who knows you are struggling to master these concepts will encourage you to work on your strategic customers - to secure those practice hours! All of these classmates will become rays of goodwill in a survival-of-the-fittest environment -- even when it isn't in their best interest to help you, since candidates are selected on a sustainability curve.
Christopher M. Cantell
Founder and CEO
The Foundry
In that regard, you should connect with a diverse group of student-candidates from around the world whose professional experiences range from working in Boston on the automation of General Electric's Factory-of-the-Future, conducting telecommunications and advanced Linux/PHP engineering for premier U.S. real-estate private equity investors to consulting on technology systems in the insurance industry. Fortunately, many of these new friends you will meet will temper the competitiveness of The Foundry. Just as you prepare for an exam on the economics of Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations", a new friend of yours who knows you are struggling to master these concepts will encourage you to work on your strategic customers - to secure those practice hours! All of these classmates will become rays of goodwill in a survival-of-the-fittest environment -- even when it isn't in their best interest to help you, since candidates are selected on a sustainability curve.
Christopher M. Cantell
Founder and CEO
The Foundry
Sunday, February 18, 2007
SigEx Foundry converts sustainable student projects into new companies by Silvia Baldin
SigEx Foundry is Creating companies for the new industry
With new opportunities and the right technology to deliver Enhanced Communications, the new industry needs to reinvent itself to create the companies of today’s and tomorrow’s telecommunications brands.
SigEx Foundry, pioneer and leader of the Enhanced Communications industry is mandating the Foundry, a re-training and company creation program, to develop custom Enhanced Communications training and deploy thousands of engineers over the next five years. The new industry requires a minimum critical mass of newly trained engineers able to develop and install Enhanced Communications products and services on a global basis.
The SigEx Foundry is a revolutionary training, research and development center that uses proven methodologies and management techniques to create successful companies based on advanced technology innovations. One of the requirements of development projects and companies launched by The Foundry is that they be sustainable businesses. Sustainability is about not depending on the market, and is a very strong asset in building technology companies today with excellent potential for creating value and personal wealth.
Tools used to create sustainability include use of our own investment fund, SigEx Ventures, combined with structures that provide value, distribution of equity and a controlled exit strategy. This approach creates a level of sustainability that allows our project companies to control their own destinies. Projects are pre-funded for 12 to 18 months of operation through SigEx Ventures, providing investors opportunities for a high return on investment based on micro investment funding (small structures grow faster), and providing Foundry graduates with stable opportunities for growth.
The SigEx Foundry’s proven process using three phases of validation provides a solid foundation for sustainability after projects are launched. A “win-by-design” approach with strategic customers enables products to be designed to meet customer needs while patents are secured. Monthly builds continue to validate products and services through the development stage, enabling them to be adapted to strategic customer needs and ensuring their value proposition.
Using this approach, SigEx Foundry builds companies in a sustainable way.
With new opportunities and the right technology to deliver Enhanced Communications, the new industry needs to reinvent itself to create the companies of today’s and tomorrow’s telecommunications brands.
SigEx Foundry, pioneer and leader of the Enhanced Communications industry is mandating the Foundry, a re-training and company creation program, to develop custom Enhanced Communications training and deploy thousands of engineers over the next five years. The new industry requires a minimum critical mass of newly trained engineers able to develop and install Enhanced Communications products and services on a global basis.
The SigEx Foundry is a revolutionary training, research and development center that uses proven methodologies and management techniques to create successful companies based on advanced technology innovations. One of the requirements of development projects and companies launched by The Foundry is that they be sustainable businesses. Sustainability is about not depending on the market, and is a very strong asset in building technology companies today with excellent potential for creating value and personal wealth.
Tools used to create sustainability include use of our own investment fund, SigEx Ventures, combined with structures that provide value, distribution of equity and a controlled exit strategy. This approach creates a level of sustainability that allows our project companies to control their own destinies. Projects are pre-funded for 12 to 18 months of operation through SigEx Ventures, providing investors opportunities for a high return on investment based on micro investment funding (small structures grow faster), and providing Foundry graduates with stable opportunities for growth.
The SigEx Foundry’s proven process using three phases of validation provides a solid foundation for sustainability after projects are launched. A “win-by-design” approach with strategic customers enables products to be designed to meet customer needs while patents are secured. Monthly builds continue to validate products and services through the development stage, enabling them to be adapted to strategic customer needs and ensuring their value proposition.
Using this approach, SigEx Foundry builds companies in a sustainable way.
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