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# : Bill Robbins, Founder & President

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## Posts
- [5 x 5](https://convergentmanagement.com/5-x-5/): Being interested in matters of defense and national security, and also, because I am always looking for useful insights for understanding current affairs, and for investing, I follow a number of military oriented websites and blogs. From these sources, I picked up the term, five by five (that is, 5 x 5,) which is analog radio communications shorthand for the grading of signal quality.
- [OODA Loop](https://convergentmanagement.com/ooda-loop/): Developed by the late U.S. Air Force Colonel John Boyd (January 23, 1927 – March 9, 1997), a fighter pilot and influential military theorist, the OODA Loop is a “practical concept designed to be the foundation of rational thinking in confusing or chaotic situations.”1 Boyd first developed the concept of the OODA Loop to improve the success and survival rate of jet fighter pilots engaged in blink-of-an-eye dogfights with Cold War-era adversaries. An acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act, the OODA Loop has found application well beyond the military, including business, sports, litigation strategy, self defense and planning.
- [Cargo Cult Science](https://convergentmanagement.com/cargo-cult-science/): Richard Feynman during his 1974 commencement speech at Caltech. Richard Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) is one of my heroes. Like my late father (another one of my heroes), Feynman was born in the then largely Jewish neighborhood of Far Rockaway, in the New York City borough of Queens. Feynman, one of history’s greatest theoretical physicists, was a genius and an iconoclast. Feynman worked on the Manhattan Project during WWII and shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. He was famous for his lectures to freshman year physics…
- [Triggers and Trigonometry](https://convergentmanagement.com/triggers-and-trigonometry/): Pythagoras would have been a good rifleman, because he understood his angles. The Pythagorean Theorem states that, in a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse (“c”) is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides (“a” and “b”), that is, a2 + b2 = c2. The Pythagorean Theorem comes into play when shooting at an angle, i.e., uphill, or downhill, especially at distance. Here’s an interesting phenomenon: When shooting at a distant target, whether shooting uphill or downhill, absent appropriate aiming-point correction (using either an external optic or iron sights), a bullet will tend to hit high. To new shooters, this seems odd. How can it be that, whether shooting uphill or down, the bullet will tend to hit high? Pythagoras has part of the answer. Newton has the other half.
- [Native American Archaeology in Southeastern Utah](https://convergentmanagement.com/native-american-archaeology-in-southeastern-utah/): In early October 2021, my wife and I, guided by a retired BLM (Bureau of Land Management) ranger who we had previously befriended during a visit to Durango, CO, toured Native American (Puebloan) archaeological sites found in and around the Montezuma Canyon area of southeastern Utah, located in the northwest quadrant of the Four Corners Region. Archeologists have determined that the Montezuma Canyon area was extensively populated up to about 1300 A.D., when, for unknown reasons, perhaps related to changes in the regional climate, a decline in the ability to grow crops, and the depletion of local game sources, the inhabitants left. According to our guide, the area was once populated by upwards of 200,000 inhabitants, whereas, today, the entire Four Corners Region has a population of only about 70,000 people, spread among the contiguous states of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

## Pages
- [Firearms: American History and Learning](https://convergentmanagement.com/firearms-american-history-and-learning/): The earliest European explorers and seekers of freedom to arrive on American shores carried with them loud, inaccurate blunderbusses that were the progenitors of distinctively American long arms. Early Americans, from self-reliant New England colonist to the rough-hewn woodsmen of the western frontier (then referred to as “Ken-tuck-ee”) depended upon their smooth-bore muskets and later, their long rifles, to hunt for food, protect themselves from wild predators and defend themselves from Indian attacks.
- [Interesting](https://convergentmanagement.com/interesting/): Well, to me, anyway! You might think so, too.
- [Contact](https://convergentmanagement.com/contact/): Contact Me
- [Books](https://convergentmanagement.com/books/): Bill is an experienced writer, published author and editor, with a keen sense for wording, style, accuracy and precision. He's also a grammatical purist!
- [Blog](https://convergentmanagement.com/blog/)
- [Expertise](https://convergentmanagement.com/expertise/): Through Convergent Management, Inc., Bill Robbins brings together remarkably broad experience with domain expertise and specialized knowledge to help clients achieve success.
- [Bio](https://convergentmanagement.com/bio/): Bill Robbins founded Convergent Management, Inc. to help people achieve success in their own professional and personal lives. Explore Bill's journey and achievements, as he shaped his own remarkable carrer.
- [Home](https://convergentmanagement.com/): Bill Robbins runs Convergent Management, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA), a consulting and advisory firm through which he provides expertise and insights to entrepreneurs, business owners and degreed professionals who seek soundly reasoned, insightful, actionable advice on business strategy, development, communication, executive management and administration.
- [Writing](https://convergentmanagement.com/book/): Seed-Stage Venture Investing, 2nd Edition: An Insider's Guide to Start-ups for Scientists, Engineers, and Investors, © 2011, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, takes a fresh look at the world of start-ups, focusing on life-science and technology spin-outs from academic and biomedical research centers. Co-authored by Bill Robbins and Jonathan Lasch, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California, this book provides a substantial update to the previous edition (authored by Bill), explaining the current challenges of financing research-intensive academic spin-outs and offering new insights and advice about evaluating technology, navigating the technology transfer process, developing intellectual property, and applying for grant funding under the NIH SBIR Program. Focusing on real-world, practical information for academic faculty members, Ph.D. students, and post-docs, as well as business entrepreneurs, start-up managers, and new investors, Seed-Stage Venture Investing, 2nd Edition cuts to the chase, offering readers practical information not typically covered in graduate school courses on technology transfer and entrepreneurship.