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Now this is what I’m talking about – this is true innovation in the transportation space. We have to break out of the concept that you must have a 2 ton car to get a human being from point A to point B.
In recent years a flurry of electrified two-wheeled motorcycles and [...]
Love this – speaks to both my entrepreneurial side and my libertarian side – although you could argue that most true entrepreneurs try to live as libertarian a life as possible, and most libertarians are entrepreneurs. Sign me up.
That’s the lesson of Blueseed, a brave new utopia for startups that [...]
Sure – there’s plenty of innovators who have no intention of either patenting or selling their inventions – we just build or mod stuff and then use it – most of the time its not because we don’t think it will sell, or we don’t think that its unique enough to patent – it’s more [...]
Much truth to this: as I’ve been saying in previous blog posts, true innovation can be a very, very dangerous thing. True innovation is the kind of stuff that freaks you out – that keeps your CEO up at night, thinking up all the ways in which your never before seen competitors swoop in and [...]
When I read this I had a moment of sadness – yes the space shuttle program is over. But if you ask me, this is just the beginning.
This is the perfect moment for private business to seize the reins, if the state will allow us, and finally make our way into space, the way [...]
I find it very interesting that, according to this new piece about PARC, it is now innovative to place “as much importance on people as technology” – where did we get the importance on technology in the first place?
Technology should never be used for technologies sake.
This is one reason that even [...]
Got into a great discussion at lunch yesterday with a colleague on the state of affairs in innovation – most of it was the same kind of opining one normally hears about the future – one of the questions most asked is – what ever happened to the flying car?
Remember those old [...]
Interesting set of ambitious ideas, but I still sense that Paul is holding back the best from this list – sure a new search engine, or replacing this or that entrenched service is ambitious – but is it truly innovative? One could argue that Google Wave was one such innovation – and look at what [...]
I remember sitting in a meeting with a VC at my last startup. Our CEO was describing the service that we were providing at the time and after about an hour of explanation, the guy on the other side of the table still did not get it. I think about 5 minutes in I realized [...]
A wise man told me once “Always have a backup strategy” – I think he told me this a few weeks before our division was canned and the management of our entire operation was moved out of Toronto and back to Calgary, and no we weren’t asked if we wanted to relocate.
Luckily, even though [...]
