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About Me:: Bill Spencer is a serial entrepreneur who has led the Hawaii Venture Capital Association since 1999. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His entrepreneurial ventures have pioneered software applications for server farm management, distributed communications, groupware computing and medical treatment management. Bill was a founding member of the Hawaii Ecotourism Association, is on the executive board of Hawaii Angels, an angel investor network founded in 2002, and has served HVCA since 1995. His companies include NET, Inc. a groupware software pioneer, MedSurf a medical treatment management service, Internet Planet a diversified web company doing e-commerce and web radio and Pipelinefx a software company with products for the animation and game industries. He is currently the CEO of Hawaii Oceanic Technology, Inc. a startup company he co-founded doing "green" next gen aquaculture technology. He was recently acknowledged as the Financial Services Champion for 2008 by the U.S. Small Business Administration for Hawaii and Region IX (California, Arizona and Nevada).

At 1:47pm on January 11, 2010, Mika Leuck said…: You are right - they are talking about Blue Fin. We look forward to trying your Big Eye!

At 12:03pm on January 11, 2010, Mika Leuck said…: Hi Bill,

Tetsuzan's Group and Ikayzo launched AquacultureHub.org last year. I just added a discussion about an ahi farm in Japan. And I got a question.

I wonder for your Ahi farm project, how much you estimate the cost for feeding Ahi per year.

The Japanese farm mentioned in the article says a few million yen (A million yen= $10K)/Ahi/year.

Aloha,
Mika

At 1:29pm on January 9, 2009, Laurence A. Lee said…: Aha, I thought your name sounded familiar. I recall doing some of the early work on MedSurf/RLFP over a decade ago.

At 9:03pm on July 25, 2008, Jeffrey Matsuki said…: Hi - sorry for the late reply. I don't have the resources to develop iphone applications at this time. It would be nice to be able to do that one day. Thanks!

At 10:29pm on July 11, 2008, Bill Spencer said…: We have decided to change the name of our fish farming system to Oceansphere. We like it better.

At 2:19pm on July 11, 2008, Cameron Souza said…: Wow - Those aquaspheres look amazing! Have you built one yet?

At 4:35pm on June 30, 2008, Dave Takaki said…: Hi Bill,

I'm new to Techhui. Nice pics. I remember when Pat Takahashi was an evangelist on the approach you seem to be taking. I'd like to talk with you sometime. My interest lies in the lower end of the trophic web. I believe that open ocean ranching and farming will eventually produce the feed inputs for the commercial (your ahi) crops, although phyto-photo-krill-small fish production may be the finished product stream for some future operations.

A hui hou,

Dave Takaki

At 8:22am on May 8, 2008, Daniel Leuck said…: I keep getting questions from people along the lines of "What are those fantastic buckyball fish farms on TechHui's front page?"

GB did a great job with these renderings. I can't wait to see the real thing!

At 10:04pm on April 28, 2008, Bill Spencer said…: Here are some more frame grabs from our Aquasphere video. GB Hajim did the CG work. He and his team did a great job, on time and on budget!

At 9:13pm on April 14, 2008, Daniel Leuck said…: Hi Bill. Any thoughts on John's Making it Easier to Cash Out of Startups post? I'm curious what a pro thinks about how an idea like this would affect Hawaii.