Innovation

Inventors Need To Be Marketers: Here’s How To Start

Most inventions achieve little or no commercial success. The problem is often a marketing failure: a promising innovation is never brought to customers in a form that they will buy. Inventors need marketing mind-set and skills to get their…

Here Is How Entrepreneurs Can Help Create Real, High-Value Jobs

Every job is valuable to the person who holds it, but just bringing on more people does not make our companies or our economy healthier. Entrepreneurs do best if they create jobs that are both high-value and real.

Changing Tech Innovation Reduces The Upside For Inventors

Before 2000 tech entrepreneurship was mainly about inventing useful things and bringing them to…

What Brexit Means For U.S. Entrepreneurs

The Brexit vote two weeks ago sent shock waves around the world. We awoke to the realization that the world economy had changed suddenly, U.S. markets swooned, 4 million Britons petitioned for a re-vote, and people everywhere wondered how much damage had been done. Friends and…

War In Heaven: Angels And VCs Duke It Out In Silicon Valley

By far the most interesting discussion at last week’s National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) annual meeting was the panel politely titled “Venture Capital Innovation,” and more aptly called “Venture Capital Disruption.”