A great challenge in this talk by the Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal urging startup founders to make use of all the amazing technology now in our hands to solve real problems. He says if we’re to solve those problems, we need to widen founders beyond 24-year-old white guys: Diversity isn’t going to be something that is […]
Monthly archives: March 2013
Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make
https://www.youtube.com/embed/HHjgK6p4nrw Here’s a great little video of Guy Kawasaki speaking at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley on 10 mistakes that entrepreneurs make — particularly if they’re rockstar engineers trying to disrupt the pet food industry. Multiplying big numbers by 1% Scaling too soon Partnering Pitching instead of prototyping Using a font smaller than 30 […]
Getting Things Done for startups
Eze hosted an event at Campus London on Friday with one of my heros — David Allen, author of Getting Things Done. I read the book in 2002 I think and have been experimenting with different ways of making the system work ever since. It’s no surprise that it’s sold 2 million copies — it’s a self-help book that […]
The other part of the 3D printing equation
Just spotted that MakerBot have announced that they’ll be launching a 3D scanner later in the year. Not sure whether the choice of object to demo it on was significant but, for those who remember a particular South Park episode, it does bring to mind the problem that the gnomes always had was ‘step 2’. […]
Two great pieces of news for London’s roads
There were two great pieces of news for transport in London last week which I think deserve a mention. First was the announcement of the Mayor’s cycling plans, which include developing the cycle super highways and quiet street cycling routes but also noting (finally) what it is that works about cycle friendly cities like Amsterdam — separation […]
Steve Wozniak on how to choose what to do
This is a lovely email exchange between a Korean student and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. There’s lots in there but I liked this bit best: Early on I decided that I would never want to tell one story in different ways. The truth always comes out one way. I decided that telling 2 versions of […]
5 hours a day
It’s one of the most remarkable statistics I’ve heard about social change for a while: life expectancy is growing by 5 hours a day. Put another way, average life expectancy increases by over a year every five years. Nesta have a new report out about the risks and opportunities of an ageing society which argues […]
Self-organised learning
Sugata Mitra won the TED Prize this year and his acceptance talk was interesting. His main point was that education isn’t broken, in fact it’s very good at doing what it was designed for (creating standardised bureaucrats in an age of empire), it’s just not very well suited to the needs of a modern economy […]