SubscribeThe sixth session started with Kris Halvorsen and Bruce Nussbaum talking about Intuit and the acquisition of Mint.com, which provides the collaborative piece with the product offering. They talked about the challenge of changing the culture from the desktop product development model at Intuit. They built teams around ideas for product development. It was all [...]
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BIF-5: Fifth Session
Saul kicked off the second day at BIF-5 with some thoughts on the takeaways from yesterday. First, our mental models of college students is wrong. We have to rethink the challenges for college students if we want more people to finish a college education. Second, we are going to have to be much more collaborative [...]
BIF-5: Fourth Session
Sarah Endline from Sweetriot kicked off the last session of the first day with chocolate. How could she miss. Her background and her story was a great explanation for how she came up with the idea of going “Back to the Bean” (i.e. putting the raw cocoa bean in the chocolate bar. It adds a [...]
BIF-5: Third Session
Saul kicked off the third session with a truism of sorts. He said the hallmark of an innovator is someone that is both confident in his or her idea, but also knows he or she is missing something. Too true. Neri Oxman started the storytelling talking about form-making (i.e. modeling, simulation, and fabrication is the [...]
BIF-5: Second Session
Don Tapscott kicked off the second session talking about kids in the digital age. He called young adults and children of this generation digital natives- he is a digital immigrant. He pointed out that the technology revolution is intersecting with the demographic revolution. As a result, for the first time, kids are experts at a [...]
Mountains Are For Me
I moved to Boulder almost three years ago to go to grad school. I was looking for two things: 1) an MBA/JD program with an emphasis in entrepreneurship, and 2) mountains. The first is rather self-explanatory (I could write a whole series on why CU was the perfect fit), especially given my background working for [...]
BIF-4 – Last Session
Joshua Klein, Senior Technology Principal, Frog Design Joshua told us all about How to Publish Your Own Book: 1) Write book, 2) Give it away, 3) Give it away everywhere, 4) Look Around, 5) Collaborate, 6) Commiserate. Joshua used a commons license instead of copyright. He gave it away, and almost no one read it. [...]
BIF-4 – Sixth Session
Bill Taylor introduced the storytellers for this session. He began briefly be mentioning the concept of Vuja De (the opposite of deja vu), or looking at an area that you know well and seeing it with fresh eyes and using that to re-imagine what’s possible. That was introduction to Tony Hsieh and Zappos whose warehouse [...]
BIF-4 – Fifth Session
Saul Kaplan, Chief Catalyst, Business Innovation Factory Saul reflected on the themes from yesterday. First, sharing innovation has to be about storytelling. Storytelling being easy to relate, inspiring, and engaging. Second, the notion of audience through social networking, linkedin, Twitter, etc. There is power and amazingness in sharing these ideas in real time. Third, is [...]
BIF-4 – Fourth Session
*Bruce Nussbaum, Contributing Editor at Businessweek, moderated the discussion for this conversation: Richard Saul Wurman*, Author, Founder of TED Conferences Richard talked about a lot of stuff. He is a man of ideas. For example, the case studies project (19.20.21) he’s instigating in 19 cities around the world to study the population phenomenon. The name [...]
BIF-4 Kickoff First Session
Saul Kaplan, Executive Director of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, Executive Counselor to the Governor on Economic Growth and Community Development. Saul, a.k.a. my former very awesome boss, kicked things off at BIF-4 talked about why innovation, particularly collaborative innovation is so important. In a nutshell, innovation is how we solve problems, and we [...]
Memory Lane
Two quick photos of my years as an undergrad. These are from Pembroke campus (the womens’ campus back in the day at Brown). Memorial Day Weekend was quite lovely in Providence, perfect for graduating seniors and returning sunbathers alumni. The building below is Andrews, my freshman dorm.
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