|
|||||
Science & TechnologyFaced with disruptive innovation, you can be sure any possibility for innovation dies when a company forms a committee for an “overarching strategy.” — I was reminded how innovation dies when the email below arrived in my inbox. It was well written, thoughtful and had a clearly articulated sense of purpose. You … More > When Solaiman Nuri and his daughters Hadessa, 9, and Hannah, 12, set out on a bike ride Saturday morning, April 7, along the sidewalk of Treat Boulevard in Concord (legally, according to the Concord Municipal Code), there was no reason to anticipate that their trip would be cut short by … More > “Epiphany e·piph·a·ny noun /iˈpifənē/ : A moment of sudden revelation or insight.” We now know how to teach entrepreneurs how to think about business models and use customer development to turn hypotheses into facts. But there is no process to teach how to get an epiphany. We can only try to create the conditions where this might … More > When Bob Dorf and I wrote The Startup Owner’s Manual we listed a series of customer-development principles. I thought they might be worth enumerating here: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable model There Are No Facts Inside Your Building, So Get Outside In 2000, scientists at a private company called Celera announced they had raced ahead of the U.S. government in decoding the DNA of a human being. Using the latest sequencing technology, plus the data available from the Human Genome project, Celera scientists created a working draft of the genome. These … More > Today, the second half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the final four (the first five are here.) Team ParkPoint Capital Silicon Valley may be a garden of innovation, but many of the seeds were sown by Hollywood. Earlier generations of innovators were inspired by shows such as Star Trek, Lost in Space, and The Jetsons; later generations, by films such as Aliens, Terminator, and Avatar. Hollywood brought science fiction to the masses and gave people … More > Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. Here are the first five. It Feels Like 20 Years Ago Today In my last post, I told you that Berkeley Physics professor Richard Muller is the go-to guy for proof of anthropogenic* climate change. Maybe that strikes you as odd. Why would I look to a physicist for information about our atmosphere? Shouldn’t we be talking with UC Berkeley’s Atmospheric Sciences … More >  |
 All AuthorsOur authors include more than 175 UC Berkeley professors and scholars who share their thoughts on topical national and global issues. BlogrollAdmin |
||||
|
The Berkeley Blog | About | Comment policies | Contact us | UC Berkeley | © 2012 UC Regents |
|||||
Recent Comments