Midnight Engineering was a magazine that focused on the interests of technical entrepreneurs.
Unfortunately, the magazine is no longer being published.
Fortunately, there is an annual conference of former readers of the magazine (and others) called Entrepreneurial Connections.
[This description was "lifted" from the Engineering Entrepreneur's Network. The current and future status of the magazine is uncertain at this time. Please visit www.BaseTechnology.com/EntEng. This description is provided for historical purposes.]
Midnight Engineering Magazine is published by a staff of one - Bill Gates of Rocky Ford, Colorado, and is a goldmine of resources and contacts. I highly recommend getting a subscription if you are an enterprising engineer.
Bill conducts an annual ski weekend/trade conference every spring in Denver, called ENTCON. Again, I highly recommend it. It's a compressed few days of high-energy revitalization for the road-weary engineer, and it can pay off in many ways for the rest of the year. And you get to ski too.
The following three paragraphs are adapted from the magazine's introduction, again by Bill Gates, and describe the atmosphere of both the magazine and ENTCON best:
"Midnight Engineering is dedicated to those individuals interested in creating, developing, producing, and distributing high technology products. The content is meant to address the individual and small enterprise, their entrepreneurial issues and opportunities, and the technology they use now and will use in the near future."
"The magazine is designed around the concept of 'a half-dozen entrepreneurial engineers sitting around having a beer'. Topics range from embedded systems technical details to software and hardware design. A particular issue might cover biotechnology or nanotechnology as well as everyday personal business such as taxes or time management and productivity."
"Quite simply, Midnight Engineering reflects the exchange of experience, insight, and concerns of today's entrepreneurial engineer."
You can usually get the latest copy of Midnight Engineering from one of the larger book "superstore" chains (such as Barnes & Noble in the U.S.).
For more information about Midnight Engineering or ENTCON, write or fax:
William E. Gates
1700 Washington Ave.
Rocky Ford, CO 81067
voice: 719-254-4558
fax: 719-254-4517
Or visit Bill's Midnight Engineering web site at http://www.midengr.com
[Midnight Engineering is a trademark of William E. Gates.]
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Updated: July 30, 2006 02:34:21 PM -0400
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