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I came across an interesting article about mobile television takeup. Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T have all tried to launch mobile TV in the United States, but with takeup at only 1% of cell users it’s pretty easy to say that mobile TV has failed to prove itself to be an innovation. Sure people might find it to be a useful ...

I had the privilege yesterday to interview Shawn Frayne, a founder of Humdinger Wind Energy. This being the Internet Age, we didn’t have to wait until we could sit down in person to chat. Instead it was an almost commonplace phone to Skype, to mobile (Skype Forward) call from Seattle to Hong Kong.To my parents, I would say “I interviewed ...

Wipro is coming to America, and Romania, and Egypt. It used to be that Wipro was an Indian company employing mostly Indians in India and that when they did an outsourcing deal with you, they would offshore the work to India. Times are changing though. An increasing number of potential outsourcing clients are becoming disillusioned with offshoring (especially for software ...

Hello all, I’ve posted the last of my notes from Business Innovation Factory (BiF-4), so I will now be returning to writing original blog posts for you. When Business Innovation Factory posts the videos from BiF-4, I will update all of my BiF-4 posts with links to the video for the speaker. If there are any topics you would like ...

Spoke briefly about the The Medici Summit. People at the Harvard Centennial on Monday/Tuesday changed their speeches based on the financial cris, but not here at BiF: We view risks differently Innovators and Entrepreneurs People adjust behavior to the perceived risk around them: Example of German taxi drivers and the introduction of anti-lock brakes No reduction in accidents despite this ...

HSARPA – 10% of budget in disruptive innovation Disruptive Innovation Group Air Force Academy 4,000 Bachelor of Science (B.S.) students They do social networking World of Warcraft and coordinating 16-17 people to attack a Dragon Flexible distributed control Multiple people getting the same information at the same time (working with Cisco) LCD TV Case Study: We invent radical technology and ...

“We are making things less bad.” New venture – New Chapter (Vitamin company sourcing from Costa Rica) Would it be possible to make shampoos that when flushed into the oceans, they might help make the oceans better? In the financial crisis, will sustainability be the first thing to go? Pepsi just announced layoffs of 3,300 people including the head of ...

Josh told the story of getting his book published: He wrote the book, tried to sell it unsuccessfully, and so it was sitting in his drawer So, he gave it away via Creative Commons license He gave it away everywhere he could (including getting it included into the first e-book reader software for the iPhone) 12,000 downloads and comments/fan mail/formatting ...

We want to de-risk ideas and help move them towards being taken into clinical trials. We sometimes add money to company investments in order to make Phase 1 trials more robust than originally planned: $4 million VC-funded trial, we incremented by $750k to fund neuro-imaging and extra doctor visit In order to get more data out of the trial We ...

IBM’s new core values: Dedication to every client’s success Innovation that matters, for our company and for the world Trust and personal responsibility in all relationships Global Innovation Outlook (GIO) program (similar to an innovation jam): Brainstorming around big societal issues 2-3 times per year at sites around the world Ideas were going global Innovation was becoming more open Have ...