Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Entrepreneur magazine has posted there list of the top 100 Brilliant Companies.

Idea Champions has posted a list of ways to be more creativite on the job.

The EDA is hosting the Jobs & Innovation Accelerator Challenge. The purpose of the challenge is to spur innovation and economic growth through public private partnerships with 16 agencies. A teleconference will be held on June 7, 2011.

Entrepreneur and professor Steve blank reports on the finding of the Startup genome project, which analyzed 650 startup to determine what characteristic led to the success of the startup. You can sign up for the full report and take a survey that will benchmark your startup against their database of companies.

A NASA manager describes lessons learned on the LCROSS system in this video Innovation on a shoestring. LCROSS is the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite that was crashed into the moon to measure the amount of water on the moon.

Felicia Day, creator of The Guild, is a special guest at IBM's Innovate2011 conference June 5-9 In Orlando, FL. The Guild is a wonderful series and can be streamed from Netflix now. Season 5 just wrapped. I'm fascinated by the interaction of technology with media and society. They seem to be interact like matter and gravity with technology being entwined in everything now. In time, everyone will be an entrepreneur and a tech geek.

Steve Blank is a serial entrepreneur and taught this very informative entrepreneurship lecture Democratization of Entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He says that startups are business that are looking for business models that can scale into large companies. Startup, however, are not small versions of large companies. They operate in a completely different way than large company so large company approach usually cause startups to fail. He describe a method to develop and iterate business models, which is available in the book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder.

Scott Gerber at Inc Magazine has a wonder article on the 10 Things I Learned From Failure. It looks like I'm failing at all 10 write now.

New companies and startups should check out Funding Roadmap that helps create and track business plans. The resulting business plan is SBA compliant for lenders and funders.

Inc Magazine has an interesting article that looks at 30 Entrepereneurs under the age of 30.