Tag Archives: innovation

PopTech Ecomaterials Lab

August 11, 2010 – 12:01 am

As profiled on Worldchanging in November 2009, future-focused conference organization PopTech has partnered with Nike to convene a year-long “innovation journey” on new green materials and industrial processes. Their first event, the Ecomaterials Lab, occurred last week. About PopTech Labs: PopTech is bringing together a network of innovators and decision-makers, brilliant and unconventional, to explore [...]

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Open Tab Wednesday

August 4, 2010 – 3:40 pm

Lots of great reading material today… Economist.com: In Search of Serendipity EVERY year, hordes of free spirits gather in the Nevada desert to “breathe art”, feel at one with the cosmos and sample the delights of Bianca’s Smut Shack. The Burning Man festival is radically anti-capitalist, with a strict ban on commerce and an emphasis [...]

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The Twilight of Venture Capital?

January 9, 2009 – 11:16 pm

Former Enterprise Partners VC Bill Stensrud bows out of the business, saying for all to hear that the entire venture capital industry has outgrown its usefulness. With charts of dwindling IPOs and the discussion of a lack of new tools, I thought he was telling us that innovation in 2009 was dead, or that the [...]

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Four-legged DARPA robot trots into uncanny valley

March 18, 2008 – 4:08 pm

DARPA-funded quadruped robot BigDog has officially descended into the uncanny valley. Congrats to DARPA for fifty years of disruptive technology development. The DARPA scientists I have met and worked with have to a person been fascinating individuals working on very tough problems. I don’t always support the military end goal that DARPA projects seek to [...]

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