Airliners Could Soon Fly in Formation, Just Like a Flock of Birds
This makes too much sense not to try.
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Where Do New Ideas Come From?
With close study, the genealogies of even the most original ideas can be traced
Opportunity Canvas
What are the best ways to think of ideas for a startup? - Quora
Reselling Software: Don’t Start a SaaS — White Label Someone Else’s
Reselling software can mean recurring revenue and great profit margins. But how do you choose a niche and find your first customers?
Practical Power Beaming Gets Real
A century later, Nikola Tesla’s dream comes true
The secret of my success as an entrepreneur: I’m 60
“ By the law of averages, if you reach four decades of work experience, then you know what it was like to be disrupted both personally and as a business.”
These are the storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs - Fast Company
'We were telling the story of a phone that would change everything. So that’s what we had to build.'
It’s Still Stupidly, Ridiculously Difficult To Buy A ‘Dumb’ TV
Historically, “smart” TVs aren’t always particularly smart. They’ve routinely been shown to have lax security and privacy standards. They also routinely feature embedded OS …
Zapier: The $5B unbundling opportunity
Zapier has 3M+ users and generates $125M in ARR. At a $5B valuation, its fast-growing horizontal platform is unable to meet the demands of all of its customers. The increase of underserved Zapier customers presents an opportunity.
The Economics of Data Businesses
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
The Accidental Invention of Bubble Wrap
Two inventors turned a failed experiment into an irresistibly poppable product that revolutionized the shipping industry
How to explain an idea: a mega post
What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?
The Experience Economy
SAP’s acquisition of Qualtrics shows how the shift in technology has changed business; it is a perfect example of using the Internet to one’s advantage.
Can Freight Train Cars Go Electric—and Self-Driving?
Decentralizing freight transport and distribution can provide flexibility and increased efficiency, getting cargo closer to where it needs to go in a more timely manner while taking stress off of overloaded ports.
The Stories Behind 20 Inventions That Changed the World
From blood banks and barcodes to the Super Soaker and the pizza box, here are the fascinating stories behind inventions that changed the world.
The thriving business of ‘Ikea hacking’
A growing number of companies are offering design tweaks for old Ikea furniture — and business is booming.
Juxting – A Fountain of Ideas
This is an article about juxting — coming up with ideas by randomly juxtaposing two things and seeing the ways they could relate to each…
Enterprise Gateway Marketplaces Will Turn Large Organizations Inside-Out
The marketplace revolution is still just beginning and the enterprise gateway is the newest type of marketplace.
Ten Ideas That Have Shaped My Life - Scott H Young
The ideas that influence us aren't always obvious. Here are ten that have shaped my life, that may have the power to change yours.
What Bill Gurley Saw - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog
Some careers can be made on the back of a single, wonderful idea. We take a look at what that looks like, through Bill Gurley's VC career.
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking | Psyche Ideas
Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem
The Hidden Habits of Genius
Leadership Now is a leading source for leadership development and analysis. We believe that anyone can make a difference by leading from where they are.
storytelling arxiv paperswithcode at DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.
My million dollar domain hobby
Setting the Stage
Checking out and building Chromium on Linux
A curated list of open source healthcare software, tools and resources
Curated list of awesome open source healthcare software, libraries, tools and resources. - kakoni/awesome-healthcare
Forming Experimental Product Hypotheses | by Chris Compston | Agile Insider
An introduction to forming hypothesis statements for product experimentation.
Million-Dollar, One-Person Businesses
How are individual entrepreneurs (solopreneurs) building multi-million dollar companies? What can we learn from their stories? Read this report to find out.
From inspiration to idea sex: how to generate ideas on demand
How do creators find ideas to write about? Poets, artists, and authors alike have been wondering about the source of our inspiration for millennia. But what's the difference between inspiration and idea sex?
Lists of radio stations in the United States - Wikipedia
Radio stations in United States have evolved since their early twentieth-century origins. In 1920 8MK started operations in Detroit; after it, thousands of private and public radio have operated in the United States. The lists of radio stations in the US are organized in a…
The power of dopey ideas – Tech Reflect
Additive Manufacturing Movement | 2020 Trends Report
Meet the manufacturers capitalizing on 3D printing today, and find out how they are transforming their design and production workflows with additive.
Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems
A handbook for how to become an expert at framing problems.
Why clothes are so hard to recycle
Fast fashion is leading to a mountain of clothing being thrown away each year and has a huge impact on the environment, so can we turn our unwanted garments into something useful?
50 Ideas That Changed My Life — David Perell
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...
Mental models for designers | Dropbox Design
Curious about product design at Dropbox? Here’s a look at tools we use for solving problems, making decisions, and communicating ideas.
Patio11’s Law
@mmcgrana: Patio11’s Law: The software economy is bigger than you think, even when you take into account Patio11’s Law.1 A few years ago, I woke up in Sunriver, OR, and went to make coffee. The house had one of those bed-and-breakfast-type coffee trays. Drip machine. A stack
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This 3-Minute Exercise Will Change the Way You Solve Problems
‘Structured thinking’ is about building a big answer by asking many small questions
To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible
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Working backwards and breaking free from the norm exposes new and unique opportunities you probably haven’t considered.
Black Swan Events
So: To be clear, I don’t think we can really call COVID-19 itself a Black Swan event. Plenty of people saw it coming, in some form or another, and said so. If you asked people last year, “what will…
Cold-Case Cure: Inside New Era of Hunting Serial Killers
New advances in DNA technology — and new databases allowing law-enforcement searches — means more unsolved murder cases are being closed.
Peeking Into the World of Rare Books
The new documentary “The Booksellers” looks at the esoteric world of the antiquarian trade, and the passionate, eclectic and endangered characters who make it hum.
How to brainstorm great business ideas
It's been said that ideas don't matter, and that only execution does. I wholeheartedly disagree. You need both to succeed, but you can only get so good...
100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund
A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works…
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected.
A startup built around building materials: Yesler marketplace is like Exped
Matt Meyers spent two decades at Weyerhaeuser dealing with product engineering, manufacturing, software engineering, product development, sales and
A Material That Throws Heat into Space Could Soon Reinvent Air-Conditioning
A radiative cooling technology could help cut energy consumption in new buildings by nearly 70 percent—and significantly shave demand in existing structures, too.