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Mentoring Is the Secret to Innovation Say Silicon Valley’s Top VCs and Entrepreneurs

Leapfrogging

While the new approach recently arose from Silicon Valley, the model knows no geographic, cultural or technical boundaries. People all over the world apply by telling the system about themselves and the project they’re working on. Mark Andreessen, Cofounder of Andreesen Horowitz. Balaji Srinivasan, Former CTO of Coinbase.

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Elon Musk Blows My Mind

CorporateIntel

He already did consumer software engineering as his opening act as a cofounder of PayPal. He is also the CTO of SpaceX and the chief product architect of Tesla. Musk made a mark in digital payment systems, then battery-powered automobiles and low-cost rocket propulsion. Not Elon Musk. Not exactly a path to retirement.

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Spotting the Great but Imperfect Resume

Harvard Business Review

But in his first decade at the school, Evans spotted and attracted an extraordinary group of graduate students, including the later cofounders of Pixar, Netscape and Adobe Systems. They wanted to be on the forefront of some technical field. Some people might have regarded Utah as a backwater. What was Evans's secret?

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

Harvard Business Review

I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. Or, as one member of our quirky team likes to say, difference isn't our deficit, it's our operating system. To get the same result, a team has to structure its interactions in a way that disrupts attention blindness.

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In Praise of Going it Alone

Harvard Business Review

The firm has developed a sensing system that captures light hitting the camera from a variety of angles, not just what strikes a plane set behind a small aperture. Lytro is revolutionizing not just image capturing systems, but also a camera's software and back-end computational functions.

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

But if these two companies took business incubation seriously, and instead of just offering technical guidance on building apps, also offered business guidance, the impact on global GDP would be tremendous. Kirk and his two cofounders Neehar Giri and Nathan Krishnan had earlier done a venture-funded startup called Nextance.

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Is Innovation More About People or Process?

Harvard Business Review

Writing in response to the publication that year of IDEO cofounder David Kelley’s The Art of Innovation , Schrage argues that IDEO’s ability to innovate lies not so much in the methodologies of brainstorming, hot teams, and rapid prototyping that Kelley describes but in its culture.