Reinventing the board meeting may offer angel-funded startups that don’t have formal boards or directors (because of geography or size of investment) to attract experienced advice and investment outside of technology clusters (i.e. Silicon Valley, New York). – Steve Blank, Why Board...

You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. - Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement address (2005)     Background I was preparing a Prezi presentation on my startup Lessons Learned, looking back to my blog and and our...

#7. PRACTICE THE ART OF COLLISION The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is a metaphor for life. What seems completely new is often just an unexpected combination of the familiar but previously disconnected. This is Innovation 101, but too often we forget, and think the one asset we have is the...

“Young people are engaging in constant communication,” she said. “Whether it’s highly literate or not is another question. But there’s all kinds of Web activity that is enhancing literacy.” – Montreal Gazette: Literacy no longer either/or Nice Nice...

#7. PRACTICE THE ART OF COLLISION The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is a metaphor for life. What seems completely new is often just an unexpected combination of the familiar but previously disconnected. This is Innovation 101, but too often we forget, and think the one asset we have is the...