A broader lesson for innovators. For years, making money hasn’t mattered for many tech start-ups, like Uber, WeWork, and Lyft. And, the common rationale is Amazon, the company that commanded investors to accept large losses while the business established its base for long-term growth. But thank goodness for public investors, […]
Will Leaders Do Good? Will Shareholders Let Them? If you’ve read the book “Sapiens,” you’ve learned that we humans help shape the context of the world we live in. Yes, there are parts of our world governed by nature and science (e.g., physics, mathematics, gravity, the solar system). But there […]
Sustainability through Human Behavior Change Put politics aside, and one discovers a collective growing concern for our environment and the impact climate change is having on our planet. You would think this wouldn’t be new news, but the alarm is blaring with more natural disasters, hitting the warmest temperatures on […]
The Love & Hate of Tech We have a growing love and hate of technology. We hate the impact it’s had on the work world and what it foreshadows with the application of robotics and AI. We hate when our data is put at risk and compromised. We hate the […]
The Holidays are here! We’re officially into the holiday season, so we thought we’d do a quick snapshot of a few related topics to see what’s shaping up in the holiday […]
Driven by Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bias. Every innovation event I attended this year spoke of the importance of diversity in the innovation process, not only to bring divergent thinking to produce better solutions, but also to ensure innovators consider a broader range of consumers in building their solutions. This idea […]
2017 set a record for the number of store closures in the U.S., topping out at almost 7,000 with more closing this year. Yet, new retailers are entering the ring, […]
Your genes = your food. Just as personalization has been brought to shopping experiences and product categories such as stationery from Shutterfly or customized gifts from Etsy vendors, food innovators are seeking to make our food more attuned to our health through personalized offerings. Using biological data, companies are personalizing […]
I’ve been spending time researching the food industry of late and attended a few events over the last few months on the future of food, including The Food Funded event […]
Not all robotics steal needed jobs. These days robotics is in the news a lot, but the talk is often negative and associated with job loss. Yet, these robotic examples solve interesting problems in positive ways and take on jobs that are either going away, people would prefer not to […]
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