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Startup-Hunting at the End of the Earth

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I’m sitting in Buenos Aires now, but last week I was in Puyuehue. Yeah, I had no clue where that was either when I got talked into embarking on a 20-something-hour day of travel to get there. If you look at a map of South America and trace your finger to the very [...]

The New Untouchables

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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee, the dynamic chancellor of public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up, introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about to speak about — our struggling public schools — was actually [...]

Revisiting The Replicator Analogy: How Infinite Goods Create More Jobs

Recently, in writing about a DRM scheme, I used the analogy of the Star Trek food replicator to explain why it made no sense to turn infinite goods, like content, into artificially scarce goods.

Innovation Management an Oxymoron

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Beware of books and articles that profess to give insights into the management of innovation. The further I dig into the field of innovation, the more I become convinced that innovationmanagement is an oxymoron.

The term management is all pervasive in industry. We have managers everywhere. We see management as an integral part of doing [...]

When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission

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STEVE WOZNIAK built the original Apple I to share with his friends at the Homebrew Computer Club, but it was his business partner Steve Jobs who had the insight that there might be a market for such a contraption. Indeed, for decades, Silicon Valley has been defined by the tension between the technologist’s [...]