America’s Innovation Deficit
Judy Estrin – former Cisco CTO – has written a book entitled Closing the Innovation Gap. She is Featured today in a article at Wired. America is facing an innovation crisis. To fix it, corporations...
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Seth Godin & the Myth of Launch PR
I love reading Seth’s posts. He always manages to shine a light on something that is not only true… but also leads us to think beyond marketing and PR and ask some fundamental questions about why we...
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Vision, Innovation and what you think you are doing…
The single biggest barrier to innovation is a lack of imagination. The second biggest barrier is the failure to commit to your imagined future state when everyone else tells you that you’ve got it...
View ArticleAZ Governor innovation finalists announced
Congratulations to the winners listed below. I’m glad to see the state government recognizing innovation in Arizona. Now we just need to convince our legislators to get serious about passing the...
View ArticleInnovation and Entrepreneurship require Optimism
It has been an interesting few weeks… no? As a Entrepreneur and Innovator who left a comfortable job at a Fortune 500 Silicon Valley software company to follow the dream of starting my own company – I...
View ArticleMore articles predicting doom for startups
I feel like the grim reaper here… really I’m not throwing myself out a window. So why am I posting these? it is important for entrepreneurs to NOT bury their heads in the sand. I would also take a...
View ArticleCan we please stop talking about monetization?
I can’t take it anymore – I just can’t. NOTE – this post was triggered by a fine post (and subsequent FriendFeed discussion) by Mark Evans – which you can find here. The idea that you can create a...
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What did you do last weekend?
I hope you had fun. I was at Phoenix Startup Weekend working with a team of smart, energized people to create a new company in a single weekend. The result – Reserve Chute – is sheer genius. This one...
View ArticleYou just don’t get me…
The thing about innovation – is that it really isn’t innovation if everyone you pitch it to immediately “gets it”. Which creates a nice piece of circular logic – I’m innovating, so no one will...
View ArticlejustSignal Demo 09 Demo – Have your data and eat it too!
On February 25th I put up a justSignal Tracker for Demo 09. I had fun today watching the tracker (you can find it here) reel off all the tweets about Demo and the presentations as they happened. With...
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