Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Tom Sachs is #96 on the FastCompany list of 100 most creative people in business. His short film the code is funny, charming and informative.

FastCompany has produced their 2011 list of the 100 most creative people in business. I enjoyed reading all the interesting things people are working on today. I hope to have time to find out more about Jan Chipchase at Frog Design, Michelle Kine at Shrink Nanotechnology, and Mitch Resnick at MIT Media Labs, for ezample.

R&D magazine has issues awards for the top 100 innovative research for products introduced this year. The list of award winner is so diverse and impressive.

Update: The DOE won 36 awards from R&D magazine.

Wired magazine has posted a list of tips to working with angel investors.

Did you miss the Transforming Systems Engineering for the Age of Complexity webinar? It can now be viewed on demand. Jeffrey Wilcox
Vice President of Engineering at Lockheed Martin Corporation introduces a lot of very interesting concepts including:

• Embracing complexity
• Holistic selection of partners and vendors as part of the system engineering process
• Model based development instead of document based development
• Simplicity
• Unexpected behavior in complex systems (microprocessor clock jitter can cause problems in large systems for example).
• Company org chart impresses itself on the system design.

These are all fascinating topics. I long for a text book or workshop that covers each topic.

Entrepreneurs in their 50s are more likely to build successful startups due to their experience, depth of contacts, and better credit history. They tend to build business in biotech, hardware, or IT so they don't get much notice or public attention.

The one million by one million website has a self-assessment tool to help businesses evaluate and improve their business-processes.

Entrepreneur magazine posted an interesting article listing the 25 characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. There ares some many things master and so little time.

Learned more about negotiations in this lecture by Professor Diamond on getting more, than I ever expected.

Phil Mckinney, the CTO of HP, talks about teaching kids creative thinking in this short video. He references the book New World Kids: The Parents' Guide to Creative Thinking.