Pitching for Government Agency IP
By brendan at 24 March, 2009, 1:56 pm
In 1999 a small web development business called Pyra Labs was founded by two people. They were trying to build an online Project Management system called Pyra. Times were tough and staff number fluctuated dramatically (at one stage, down to one person holding on to the vision). Eventually some interest was shown in a side [...]
Read More >>Failure has bad PR
By brendan at 16 March, 2009, 12:02 pm
In mid February the Churchill Club ran a programme called Innovation DNA which was about making innovation a sustainable programme in Australian SME’s. One of the panellists, Wes Sonnenreich from Deloitte, mentioned that a good failure was one that was quick and cheap. Which got me thinking about failure again. My assertion has been for [...]
Read More >>5 Innovation Lessons
By brendan at 23 February, 2009, 10:19 pm
A book title that really appealed to me was “Why things Fail” by British Economist Paul Ormerod, so I picked up a copy last year. The book is a study into similar patterns of failure that appear in a variety of different environments (biology, geology, economics etc). The guts of the book (warning spoiler ahead) [...]
Read More >>consumer innovation
By brendan at 16 February, 2009, 9:34 pm
One of the things that I love about my iPhone is that is a fully fledged 16gb iPod as well as a multimedia device and phone. Every time I go for a drive (or catch a tram) I am now entertained and or challenged by podcasts that I subscribe to (they automatically get downloaded to [...]
Read More >>Hard or soft serve?
By admin at 23 April, 2008, 12:32 pm
Last year I met with a British researcher who was out in Australia to talk about Innovation policy. From my point of view, the interesting thing about David Connell was that not only was he a researcher at Cambridge, but he was also, until recent years, the CEO of a Venture Capital fund specializing in [...]
Read More >>How I learnt to love bad customers
By brendan at 9 May, 2007, 4:51 am
I think that my journey to love bad customers started with Warren. He was making a reasonable living out of multi-level marketing and wanted to embrace the internet. Highly enthusiastic, Warren would never plan because planning and paperwork were beneath him. Instead, everything occurred at the last minute and had to be the latest technology [...]
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