Category Archives: Terabeam

Making Room for Old School Disruption

This post on HBR’s business blog is a great reminder. Any company–not just startups–can change the game. Terabeam in the early half of the decade burned through $500 million of  VC money and equity trying to change the wireless networking … Continue reading

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Sprint and Its CEO

Last week’s announcement of $3 billion deal among big players like Intel, Google and Sprint to push WiMAX in the market is a nice press release. Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO and now head ad pitchman in a national campaign (a … Continue reading

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How to Burn Through $500 Million

Ever burn through $500 million? A Seattle telecom startup did once upon a time. I worked for one of its competitors. We were in a bleeding-edge wireless sector known as free-space optics. Three companies in all (Terabeam, AirFiber and LightPointe) were going to hit it big with products that use invisible laser … Continue reading

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