Prehype aims to come into a company and identify its “intrapreneurs.” Then, they will host the employee or employees a la Google’s 20% time, building a new company outside of the original company. Another way it works is if an employee has an idea and seeks out Prehype. Prehype will then help them convince their company [...]
via slideshare.net Innovation manifesto from Idris Mootee, head of “b-school + d-school” firm Idea Couture.
From finance to healthcare to media, New York’s economy is primarily driven by services. Yet our understanding of what design offers is rooted in products and places rather than how those things operate or how people use them — design has traditionally concerned itself with goods, not services. Only in the past decade or so [...]
December 9, 2010 – 1:10 am
To launch the Domino Project, a bestselling author is walking away from traditional book publishing and using the tools of new media to bring his (and his colleagues’) ideas to the world in a new way. Amazon is working with me to create The Domino Project, a new kind of book publishing venture, one that [...]
December 1, 2010 – 12:02 pm
With Groupon Stores, businesses can now create and launch their own deals whenever they want. Think of it as the online equivalent of a merchant’s physical storefront. Merchants can now: Setup a permanent (and free!) e-commerce presence on Groupon for promoting their business. Create their own offers to run deals whenever they want. Submit deals [...]
November 27, 2010 – 4:44 am
What if there were a way to transform complaints into something positive and productive? What if we reframed the exchange to be less about adversity and more about cooperation and action? What if citizens were encouraged to offer their thoughts on how things from transit systems to city parks might be improved — as opposed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
