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Interview: Michael Schwab, Adventure Capitalist Big Sky Partners Michael B. Schwab, founder and Managing Director of Big Sky Partners, is an active investment professional with nearly a decade of experience investing in and mentoring, early stage companies through all stages of company growth and technology/product development.  Since founding Big Sky in 1999, he has specialized in seed and Series A technology financing, applying multi-sector investment strategies with a particular focus on the cleantech and alternative energy sectors.  Mr. Schwab often helps beginning entrepreneurs create ...

It’s surfing’s greatest debate: wave pool or the real thing? Since the 1980s, professional surfing has dabbled with artificial waves – the first pro event, the Inland Surfing Championships, was held in truly lacklustre conditions in a wave pool in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA. And throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, various entrepreneurs and investors made noise about new 'ground-breaking' technology that ultimately amounted to yet another uninspiring artificial wave. Michel Bourez tearing up the KS Wave Pool © Kelly Cestari/World Surf League Typhoon Lagoon, a 13.6m-litre (3m-gallon)...

One of the key men behind a push for a Kelly Slater Surf Ranch at Coolum West says a wave park proposal in Glass House Mountains will have no impact on their project ambitions. World Surf League and Kelly Slater Wave Co Asia Pacific general manager Andrew Stark said the viability of the Coolum West project, and the willingness of World Surf League and Consolidated Properties to proceed was not affected at all by a recent proposal to the south. In late-December, 2020, the Daily revealed a development application had been lodged with Sunshine Coast Council for an estimated $30 million surf ...

Kelly Slater By Kim Schiffmann, in Surf · 23-12-2020 01:00:00 · 0 Comments Kelly Slater is probably the most famous surfer ever and was awarded the title of “The Greatest Surfer of all Time”. Slater was born in Cocoa Beach, Floridain 1972. He started surfing when he was only 5 years old and by the time he was ten he was already winning almost any competition he entered. His talent became apparent to the world when he won h...

Surfing in the Olympics By Kim Schiffmann, in Surf · 11-12-2020 01:00:00 · 0 Comments The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo were supposed to mark the entry of surfing into the most established sports competition in the world. Many surf fans were excited to see their favourite athletes in action on screens all around the globe since it was considered to be included in the 2020 Summer Olympics back in 2015. A year later, the unanimous vot...