KP's unfiltered insights on innovation, technology, and startups in real estate and construction.
When you hear the term, "civil engineering" your eyes and ears usually don't perk up in anticipation like they do when you hear "new iPhone" or "driverless cars" or "Artificial Intelligence." Instead, you think bridges, roads...
Sometimes, I'll put good money after bad. Not this time. Recently, I've seen some proposed down rounds on some investments I made a couple of years ago. I was offered the "opportunity" in invest more at a lower valuation. Sometimes a down...
Although it's not named in this article, "corporate innovation" is getting close to being one of those buzzwords used in bingo games at Annual Kickoff Meetings around the globe. Of course every corporation wants to "innovate", and the title...
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm responsible for some of world's most prominent construction projects, has partnered with The Combine to commercialize technologies under its internal innovation engine, TTWiiN...
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In business, buzzwords are always in fresh supply. Every day, market experts come up with new and creative terms to describe new trends, products and services. People write books and articles about these trends and entrepreneurs scramble to create...
Serial entrepreneur and sewing-automation leader K.P. Reddy is IndustryWeek magazine's Manufacturing Leader of the Week for June 6-12. Reddy, who earned his Georgia Tech civil engineering degree in 1994, is CEO of SoftWear Automation, a startup...
My dad died suddenly when I was 15 years old. He was a bit of a trailblazer, the first of his friends to migrate to the US in the 1960's, landing at the University of Minnesota. I'm not sure how that process even worked. I can't imagine...
Not everybody is cut out to be a parent. Not everybody wants to be a parent. Same with management. Sometimes people become managers from a very intentional career path they have crafted over the years. Sometimes someone who never once expressed a...
This week I was at a Family Office conference. It was a great group of family and multi-family offices. There was a great appetite for private investments and specifically early stage. 1. Active Investment- FO have historical been passive...
Georgia Influencer: What's the best reason and the worst reason to become an entrepreneur?K.P. Reddy: The worst reason is -- "I want to make a lot of money. The entrepreneurs I know all drive nice cars." The best reason is -- "I want to carve...
Here are five takeaways from my recent fireside chat with Dana Barrett at General Assembly Atlanta: 1. If you have a great idea and market but you aren't getting funded, look in the mirror...
