Perpetual Innovation

Author: BizMan

  • Miami No. 2 in startup activity, Kauffman report says | Miami Herald Miami Herald

    Miami No. 2 in startup activity, Kauffman report says | Miami Herald Miami Herald:

    This is a very interesting, but telling report.

    Miami is way up there in startups, about 250 per 100,000 people. Cleveland, not so much so, with less that 100 per.

    It is a little surprising that Orlando fell 12 ranks down to 33rd. Makes you wonder if it is Orlando losing ground or other metros gaining very rapidly. I would guess mostly the latter.

    I’m sure this also has a lot to do with how mature in the turn-around from recession each area is as well.

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  • Nation’s Startup Activity Reverses Five-Year Downward Trend, Annual Kauffman Index Reports | Kauffman.org

    Nation’s Startup Activity Reverses Five-Year Downward Trend, Annual Kauffman Index Reports | Kauffman.org:

    Business Startups are up.

    That’s great. Entrepreneurship and new business formation is a great advantage to the economy.

    The olde adage:  the worst time to start a business is at the onset of a recession. The correlate to that is: the best time to start a business is at the end of a recession. Well, it has taken 6 years but the end of the Great Recession has finally past. Those people who had jobs didn’t want to give them up. Now maybe they are willing to step out on their own. Those people who didn’t have jobs, may have formed companies out of necessity, not out of strength.

    It is interesting that 63% of the new startups were by men. Part of that would be because of the rebound in construction and factories where men dominate. But also, women are generally more risk averse than men. Maybe they will just take another year of healthy economy before they take the plunge.

    Minorities, especially Hispanics were up. Blacks and whites, not so much so.

    They are saying that 3 out of every 1,000 adults started a business in 2014. That must be annually. (Something said monthly which seems very high; that would be 3.6 out of 100.)

    No matter the number, better and more quality businesses that survive and thrive is always better than a large number of startups when most of them fail.

    It is always good to see strong healthy signs of progress in an economy that is sputtering a bit.

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  • Intel science winners… cool inventions… and patents

    Meet the teen who just won $75,000 for inventing a system to keep germs from spreading on airplanes http://wapo.st/1d3L2Eo
    Wang, the young winner, created a way to give everyone on an airplane their own space, with kind of  air walls around them.
    His simulation shows a 55 times reduction in the air transmittable diseases. The retrofit for an existing airplane? It takes one evening and cost a whopping $1000! With the reduction in sick time, the airlines will make it back from employees in one single trip.
    And what does Wang want to do when he grows up? He wants to go to college and study engineering and business!

  • Moore’s Law Shows Its Age – WSJ:

    Moore’s Law Shows Its Age – WSJ:

    This is a great story of 50 years of computing with geometric growth in speed and halfing price of costs.

    Of course the cost of a factory has gotten a little bit pricey!…

    Here is a sister article: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-promise-at-technologys-powerful-heart-1429310535?KEYWORDS=moore%27s+law

    There are some physical limitations that really kick is as very small levels, say 12 nanometers. Getting smaller at that point is no longer as “easy” as it has been.

    Many people think that Moore’s Law is going to Peter out. Other’s like Ed Jordan (2010) in a Delphi Study found that the technology will likely need to change in the future. That the limitations of silicon will require a move to other technologies to reach that next BIG jump in smallness.

    Jordan’s 2010 study of computing technology experts found that,

    “a technology to replace silicon dioxide would most likely
    emerge sometime during the next 30 years” likely within 15 years… “the emerging
    technology would mostly likely be biologic, probably protein based.” (Hall & Jordan, 2013, p. 110)

    Hall and Jordan (2013) talk about the next big leap in computing technologies and what impact that will have for computing intensive companies and those companies that make computing products.

    It seems like about 50 years since we have had a truly disruptive technology innovation!…
    Well, maybe 3-D printing… We will see.

    References

    Hall, E. B., & Jordan, E. A. (2013). Strategic and scenario planning using Delphi: Long-term and rapid planning utilizing the genius of crowds. In C. A. Lentz (Ed.), The refractive thinker: Vol. II. Research methodology (3rd Ed.). (pp. 103-123) Las Vegas, NV: The Refractive Thinker® Press. 
    Jordan, E. A. (2010). The semiconductor industry and emerging technologies: A study using a modified Delphi Method. (Document No. 3442759, University of Phoenix). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, 184. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/853641948

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  • Rise of the Rest – Entrepreneur Tour. 5 Cities at a time.

    World Stock Markets:

    Steve Case from AOL fame is one of the judges going round hitting up start-up business ideas, 5 cities at a time. The south of USA is next.

    Revolution, Google for Entrepreneurs, and UP Global

    This UP Global initiative is an interesting approach by Google ventures and others to identify and fund new venture ideas.

    A very cool approach to jump starting innovation anywhere and everywhere around the world. That the winner gets a boat-load of money and and a blast of publicity is a rather nice perk to the whole process.

    See Google Ventures here: http://www.gv.com/about

    See Case Foundation here: http://casefoundation.org

    I Like the title of an article on the Case Foundation web site: “Running business as if the future matters.”

    Steve’s come some distance since the time when the guppy-eat-the-whale daze of the DotCom error when AOL bought out TimeWarner. This buy-out-merger resulted in one of the greatest indigestion from over-eating of all time.

    Read about this Maalox moment in a 2005 book: “The failure of the AOL-Time Warner merger is the subject of a book by Nina Munk entitled Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner(2005).” (Steve Case, 2015, Life and Career, para. 10).

    Steve has had a very impressive log of ventures and philanthropic organizations since the AOL days.

    Reference

    Steve Case. (2015, March 12). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:34, March 16, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steve_Case&oldid=651091501

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