The characteristics listed below are adapted from a blog post by Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter title Five Powers that Get Ideas off the Ground (thanks to Judith Clegg for the pointer). Lists of characteristics like this are useful as reminders of how we should behave and to provide frameworks for self analysis and [...]
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A couple of weeks back I recorded a Desert Island Discs style interview for UK radio station Jazz FM. It went out at 6pm last night as part of their Jazz in the City series and it is now available as a stream from their website. For those that haven’t listened to [...] For a while now the folks at the Startup Genome Project have been doing some excellent data driven work into what drives success and failure at startups, and earlier this year I wrote about their first report under the headline The ingredients for a successful startup. Yesterday they followed that up with the release [...] Steve Job’s tenure at Apple has been little short of amazing. We are all familiar with the run of fantastic products they have released from the iPod through to the iPad (and the as usual the world is desperate for the new iPhone to arrive as soon as possible), but the progression of the [...] During my morning reading today I was surprised to read articles about one, then two, then three mid-sized software companies filing to go public. The three are Eloqua, Jive Software and Brightcove, all decent businesses with good reputations, but they are not juggernauts like LinkedIn, Zynga or Facebook. I was surprised at this news [...] Thirtieth in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series here, [...] On Friday someone linked me to a Facebook developers page about Social Design (I think it was Christian Hernandez, Head of International Business Development at Facebook). Facebook’s purpose in putting the page together is pretty obvious – they want people to write better social apps on Facebook so they are giving out some helpful [...] I have nothing but admiration for Autonomy, but my heart sunk a little when I heard on the news last night that HP was looking to buy them, and then dropped a little further when I read this morning that the Autonomy board is supporting the offer, making it pretty much a done deal. [...] It is often the case that new media formats are greeted with suspicion amid fears that the changes they herald will undermine important creative aspects of society. Often these fears are misplaced and it is the distribution channels of the old format that are under threat rather than the media itself, and after a [...] |
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