Eric Alan Hill

Director of @msstateecenter, Cofounder at @coflyt, Engineering alumnus of @msstate, private pilot & sailing enthusiast.

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

Gusts in excess of 40mph and 0.25-0.50in hail here in Starkville, MS #mswx

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

@msstate emergency team you may want to take a look at the website. It’s saying normal on the emergency page while Twitter and texts says K-9 units are searching for a possible bomb?

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

49mph gust just NE of Starkville, MS about 8min ago. #mswx

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Intervene. I am part of nature, and if the instinct is to intervene, isn’t intentionally dismissing that instinct more so “going against nature”? To me the litmus test is to prevent the known death now versus the unwritten fate of the snake.

[MSU Center for Entrepreneurship & Outreach @MSStateECenter]

Humo, a cutting-edge golf technology startup out of MSU, is set to make its debut at the prestigious 2024 PGA of America Show in Orlando. Get ready to witness a revolution in the world of golf! Check it out!

https://t.co/8TW7k2oF1O

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

One day, it’d be really nice to live in a world where I didn’t have to exercise brain power to coming up with Active Shooter contingencies as part of facility expansions.

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

@StarkUtilities @COStarkville Man, what incredible service — job well done. I know it can’t be fun to be outside tonight and y’all are all over it, with great communication on top of it. Seriously thank yall and great job. Huge kudos!

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

Except Buffalo has zero scheduled international airline service… so the only thing this affects is private international travel, out of an abundance of caution. I can’t imagine that’s a huge volume. This is the sort of incomplete, misleading reporting people are tired of.

[Pete Muntean @petemuntean]

BREAKING: Buffalo Niagara International is CLOSED to ALL departing and arriving international flights, per FAA.

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

@Novo_HQ @AlumniRealty @AzloNow Hoping to print checks with Quickbooks. We still use a good bit of paper checks sadly, and rather turn them quicker than the 7-10 days. We can order our own just need the banking info to put on them.

[Fintwit @fintwit]

@sama Microsoft’s board right now

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

@Novo_HQ @AlumniRealty @AzloNow Hi @Novo_HQ - New customer here! Where can we find the checking information that we need to use for ordering our own QB checks?

[NWS Atlanta @NWSAtlanta]

Here is a complete satellite loop of today's eclipse from our GOES-16 satellite! #gawx

[Michael McGuiness @mikemcg0]

Keith Rabois expressed a similar affinity for vertically integrated companies in his recent panel at the BUILD Summit in New York https://t.co/SfWI2w1361

[Michael McGuiness @mikemcg0]

Q: What startup category is continually underestimated?

In the clip below, Peter Thiel explains why he believes “complex coordination” is a company category that’s continually underestimated.

“The question we always focus on is ‘can this company become a monopoly?’”

He then lists several things that can make a company a monopoly:

Super fast distribution on a very thin product (e.g. Twitter)

A technological advantage that is continually built upon: you come up with something new and steadily improve (e.g. enterprise SaaS software)

A truly brilliant breakthrough (e.g. Bitcoin)

However he argues that complex coordination—where you take a lot of little pieces and coordinate them into something new—is continually overlooked as a way to create a monopoly:

“This is the thing that’s maybe 180 degrees antithetical to the Lean Startup ethos. It’s complicated. You have to put all the pieces together in just the right way. I think this is on some level what really drove Apple as an innovative company in the last decade… What was new about the iPhone? There was no single component that was new. It was just that you put all of these things together in just the right way… and once you built it, it was actually super hard for people to replicate. You had an advantage for many years. You could get network lock in—in terms of the app community or the brand.”

He also points to Tesla and SpaceX as examples:

“There’s no component to the Tesla that’s actually that new. It’s just that you put all of the pieces together. You re-engineered the whole distributor network. It was this complex coordination that made it work. There’s like this lost art of accounting where you figure out how much things cost and add them all together. And Elon has discovered this lost art of accounting which no other people practice.”

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

@MSStateECenter @glocubes @Inc @CDispatch @WCBINEWS @msstate_news @lynn_spruill @MSStateAlumni @mbjournal

[MSU Center for Entrepreneurship & Outreach @MSStateECenter]

HUGE congratulations to the entire @glocubes team, under the leadership of bulldog founders Hagan Walker and Anna Barker, for earning a prestigious spot on the 2023 @Inc 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies. Read more: https://t.co/xFOL3ReYkh

[Eric Alan Hill @eahill]

After all these years, why is Chromium's memory management still such a trainwreck?

[Blockbuster @blockbuster]

In the spirit of trying to be ahead of trends now. We are rebranding #Blockbuster to #BlockX or #XBuster. Please let us know us know in the comments your favorite.

[Starkville PD @Starkville_PD]

Now this is curbside service done right! Come see Starkville’s newest business on Douglas McArthur near Spruce Ln. I still got 5 more hours on shift………I’m going to run out of dollars before the days over with.

[Mississippi Enterprise for Technology @MSETtweets]

We've kicked off the first day of the Mississippi Aerospace and Defense Symposium!
#MSAandD