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Beyond Moore’s Law

Daniel Burrus

Moore, cofounder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, Moore’s Law deals with processing power, the speed at which a machine can perform a particular task. For some, the “cause of death” is purely technical—a transistor can only be made so much more powerful and smaller, they say. Moore’s Law Defined—and Reborn. Named after Gordon E.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. But business and government leaders have much to learn about designing their organizations to ensure the full benefits of accessing agile talent.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Cofounders are crucial. Juan Díaz-faes for HBR.

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Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It)

Harvard Business Review

Since we can't see what we can't see, the speaker showed us a video designed to catch us in the act. I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. So we also have meetings designed to see what we're missing. When our team meets, we put on the agenda: "What are we missing?"

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What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome?

Harvard Business Review

When web designer Ben Blumenfeld was working for a major TV network, he was responsible for creating websites for mainstream shows. Ben told me, "I knew Mark was going to build the company with or without me, and once I met the design team, I was just blown away. Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically."

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In Praise of Going it Alone

Harvard Business Review

Yet rather than license its breakthrough technology to a company such as Nikon and sell the product through traditional camera retailers, Lytro is building its own camera that it will sell through Internet channels such as Amazon and via the company's own website. Lytro is far from alone in its quest for self-reliance.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.