Sat.Aug 20, 2016

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7 Business Limits On That Million Dollar Invention

Startup Professionals Musings

Every inventor seems to think their invention is worth a million dollars, but I haven’t seen anyone pay that much for one yet. In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. Early-stage ideas fall in the same category.

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Activist Technologists

deal architect

In writing my book, Silicon Collar, I knew I would need to address the pessimism of many academics, analysts and economists about automation leading to jobless societies. I also found myself getting in all kinds of policy issues around Universal.

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Book: String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis

Feld Thoughts

I love tennis. I love David Foster Wallace. And I needed a book on the couch day after a gruelingly long week where I started feeling better and then was flattened this morning by a few spoons of my yogurt and peach breakfast. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis was the second book I read today (the first was Dark Matter by Blake Crouch – more on that in another post) and it was delightful.

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Early Mornings Are Your Best Untapped Resource

YFS Magazine

By rising early, you’re setting the tone and course for a day of success.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Weekend Favs August Twenty

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs August Twenty written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road.

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How To Take A Great Idea From Inspiration To Completion

YFS Magazine

Shepherding a project from inception to completion is rarely easy.