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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Innovation Excellence

In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. So taking a software centric view, while it has served Silicon Valley well in the past, may be its Achilles heel in the future. In other words, that software would eat the world. The Silicon Valley Myth. As the economist W.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

A 2014 review, 2014 book and 2016 book indicate that higher levels of imaginative pretend play in childhood helps enhance creativity in adulthood. music, coding), it does not mean you will also be creative in a different domain , such as cooking or sculpture. Teenagers did show higher creativity on the social challenge though.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

March 2011: I submitted the final manuscript to Penguin for Best Practices are Stupid. April 2011: Almost immediately after submitting the manuscript, I conceived the concept of a “Challenge Toolkit.” May 2011: I created a spreadsheet cataloging a number of lenses. Over time I added to it, collecting dozens of them.

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The Global StartUp Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

The 2017 report by Startup Genome recently came out (April 5, 2017) You can find it here “ Global StartUp Ecosystem Report 2017 ” which provides a 150-page review of the global state of startups. Silicon Valley happened due to a steady stream of investments since the end of the 2nd world war.

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How Technology is Empowering the Modern Property Manager

Business and Tech

At the time we were looking to raise capital (between 2011 and 2013), businesses with women on the executive team received only 7 percent of the venture funding. Beyond just building a great software solution, I learned that to build a technology business, it’s critical to figure out how to navigate explosive growth and the need to scale.

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Micromanaging higher ed won’t help students

Christensen Institute

Recognizing the importance of OPMs to public and private, non-profit colleges, however, the Department of Education under the Obama administration issued A “Dear Colleague Letter” in 2011 to clarify that the OPM business model is legal so long as they offer a bundle of services, not just recruiting. Fast forward to the GAO report.

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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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