There has never been before such an opportunity for new ideas and products to reach a global market as we have today via the Internet. A small team of individuals can rapidly build and offer new products or services worldwide in a matter of days and weeks instead of months and years, and at a far lower cost than it took our parents and grandparents to achieve the same level of achievement,  An offering that addresses a real need can reach millions in revenue and become a market leader even before the companies and products it obsoletes knows what happened, while new offerings that fail to find an audience can be rapidly terminated or pivioted without waisting a lot of time, effort and fortune.

What has made this entrepreneurship opportunity possible is a combination of business and development strategies, including Lean Startup, Incubators and Accelerators and Agile Development, combined with modern open source, mobile web, cloud computing, multimedia, and networking technologies.  You do not have to turn your ideas into a viable company by yourself.  You can leverage, combine and build upon what others have already created to craft your solution to a common customer problem in a unique, efficient and elegant way.  This enables you to rapidly transform your ideas into code, product and service offerings, getting them in front of customers, measure and learn from those offerings, and then drive improvements in a rapid continuous cycle.  Innovation is what drives economic opportunity and today's technology has never before made it easier.

But what is needed to be successful is help in identifying and leveraging the modern technologies in a cost effective, rapid way using an approach that provides the level of reliability expected from a successful company independent of the amount of growth that company might experience.  Providing that assistance is the goal of the i-GATE Innovation Hub, its facility called The Switch, and of Thompson Multimedia Engineering, all located in beautiful downtown Livermore. Through a local Tri-Valley community network of talented and experienced individuals, we look to help you get your ideas and company off the ground.

Through my years at Digital Equipment Corp., nCUBE Inc., Cisco Systems and Huawei Technologies, I have participated in significant technology evolutions and have learned what works and what doesn't.  From my time as a co-founder at Interlink Computer Sciences, Inc. and more recently working with startups TerrAvion, Cinespots, NovaSolix, Trunomi, and others, I have identified and leveraged a key set of technologies that can be utilized by startups and enterprises who wish to improve their competitive position and maximize success.  The primary technology areas I focus on are: