Jim Foster

Graduated from Hobart College undergrad and Babson grad. Founded a product design and development firm, set up manufacturing operations in Taiwan, ate frog and rat, sold into mass retailers, big box, specialty, e-tailers, exited company by licensing products to public and private companies. Started an architectural services company, InterioReview in 2003 capturing the built environment for a wide range of real estate professionals, did not have to eat rat or frog. Starting 3rd company, PointKnown, bringing productivity tools to all building professionals so they can capture the built environment directly into a BIM (Building Information Model) enabled work station.

Homepage: http://www.pointknown.com


Posts by Jim Foster

When I say BIM what do you think? The US Army Corp of Engineers thinks Revit

ThuEtc/GMT+72010-12-02T05:26:48-07:00Etc/GMT+712bEtc/GMT+7Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:26:48 -0700 2, 2010 - 5:26 am12

Exchange BIM : Bid and Win : Autodesk giving it away : Adword model coming to BIM?

WedEtc/GMT+72010-12-01T07:39:01-07:00Etc/GMT+712bEtc/GMT+7Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:39:01 -0700 1, 2010 - 7:39 am12

Pointools plugs in SketchUp : Use Point Clouds directly inside SketchUp Modeling Environment : BIM

22010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:49:42 -0700 30, 2010 - 10:49 am11

Reality Capture #2 on Autodesk Labs Hit List : Project Galileo to join other tools. BIM

22010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:38:11 -0700 30, 2010 - 9:38 am11

Sketch Up vs Revit : Round 2 : Autodesk and Revit scores with Vasari

12010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:46:49 -0700 15, 2010 - 10:46 am11

Laser to Revit : Laser to BIM : New Tools to Capture the Built Environment

62010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:46:17 -0700 13, 2010 - 7:46 am11

Obama Administration Boosts Retrofits : Biden Announces Fed Program

52010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:54:39 -0700 12, 2010 - 9:54 am11

My UnConference : Better late than never : MassTLC

42010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:52:53 -0700 11, 2010 - 3:52 p11

Buckeyes on board with BIM – Post Protocol : Ohio BIM

42010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:26:02 -0700 11, 2010 - 9:26 am11

PointKnown Nails It. Rapid Models Autodesk AEC HQ in Waltham: Pilot moves on.

42010vEtc/GMT+711bEtc/GMT+7Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:47:04 -0700 4, 2010 - 11:47 am11