Apple iPad and Google Buzz: Harsh Reality of Innovation
Nothing like putting your heart and soul in an innovation, and then getting this: Man, tough audience. But very much in keeping with some the best advice on innovation. Which is, you can’t have innovation without some failure along the way. It’s inevitable. That advice is both true, and glib. Innovation consultant Jeffrey Phillips catches [...]
Open Innovators Outperform the Market by 16.9%
At the Open Innovation Summit last week in Orlando, there were a number of companies there discussing their various initiatives for open innovation. What is open innovation? UC Berkeley professor Henry Chesbrough, perhaps the father of the movement, formulated this definition several years ago: Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and [...]
Being Upfront Gets Better Results than Trying to Sneak It By
I’m generally not tracking the “post ads to your social networks” movement, be it sponsored blog posts or tweeting ads to your followers on Twitter. There is one aspect to it that I think is most important: disclosure. Robert Scoble has a post up, More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising, where he notes that he unfollowed [...]
Social Media is the New Collaboration
When we look at corporate frameworks and how we use collaboration and innovation across corporate boundaries, including collaborating with other companies to get a product out to market we are looking at social networking. We just have a fancy new label for it, but in the longer run, what we saw as collaborative teaming and [...]
Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?
This is part of my ongoing series called “Start-up Lessons.” I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start [...]
