Innovation
How to Succeed in a Crowded Market
As entrepreneurs, we often look for an untapped market or “blue ocean” opportunity to make our mark. The path less traveled, right? But if your passion and experience direct you right into the middle of…
The Next Wave of Manufacturing Industry Trends
Time and technology wait for no one, especially when you’re talking about the ever-evolving, fast-paced world of hardware manufacturing. Not only are advances being made in materials and connectivity capabilities, but hardware VC firms and…
Is It Still Possible to Be Original?
Entrepreneurs and potential small business owners are faced with a difficult challenge in modern society: is it still possible to be entirely original with our thoughts and creations? Are we all just stealing, copying and…
3 Signs It Is Time to Grow
Growth is a funny thing. Too much too fast is not good, but not growing when the time is right is not a smart move either. Growth usually requires money on the front end, but…
5 Ways to Use Periscope for Your Business
Periscope is a way to use mobile live-streaming to market your business. The app is proving to be a powerful tool—it allows you to ‘go live’ via your smartphone from any location for real-time engagement….
How to Become a Product Designer
Casey Kerrigan, MD, isn’t a product designer. And yet, that’s exactly what she is. What sounds like a contradiction isn’t at all. Rather, it’s the axiom of a new era in product design—an era in…
There’s Gold in Repurposing Intellectual Property
Several times a month, I’d have lunch with one of my CEOs, and each time we’d find ourselves digging into the intellectual property developed by the company over the years, just to refresh ourselves about…
How is a Business Ecosystem a Key Driver to Success?
In a Harvard Magazine interview, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, explained: “In Silicon Valley, there is a sense that you prosper only because you’re surrounded by lots…
What Uber Is and Isn’t—and How You Can Benefit
Uber is celebrating its fifth anniversary and it certainly has accomplished a lot in five years. It’s hard to imagine another company that has so quickly established a global presence. The last figures I saw…
Changes in the Manufacturing Industry: What Product Companies Must Do to Survive
I’m talking about every product company in every industry—toys, medical devices, cars, electronics. . . . They’re all facing disruption, and it’s very real because what businesses used to do before will not help them…
