Coming to a Couch Near You: A New Wave of Telecommuting: Very cool discussion about Telecommuting. And Traffic. I just saw stats on the worst commutes in America. (several different ways to slice n dice it). One stat was the average person spends a bout a week per year (38 hours) in traffic. I have no idea where Mr Average lives, cause the rest of us used to ring up that many commuting hours in…
IBM Seeks Patent on Software that Incorporates Human Emotion – IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law: IBM patents emotions. How does that make your feel? Sad? Mad? Glad?Well, let’s not get emotional about this. But it seems that our friends at IBM, the patent King, has a rather cleaver line on patents. IBM is making efforts to emulate the types of things done by the human emotions. Multiple channels, multiple inputs. One would assume the…
Pfizer — U.S. court invalidates Celebrex patent; generics loom | Reuters: Ouch!:-( Knocking the block of of the buster. Pfizer is taking a big hit with this court ruling against Celebrex patent. Surprisingly, the stock price, not so much so. Almost not even a jitter as it stays around $32 per share. That’s $3B in annual sales with $2B in the US (relevant to the US court ruling, obviously). IF the company repeats its $51B…
Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage: Great insight on competitive advantage, flexibility, and innovation. Article, but a nice video of Rita as well. Book:McGrath’s most recent book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013) ‘via Blog this’
Pono Music – Where Your Soul Rediscovers Music by the PonoMusic Team — Kickstarter: Pono Music… a project funded at Kickstarter. http://kck.st/1g5xVf3 High resolution music in a world that has gone Digital! Finally, I can put those olde (analog) records back on the shelf! This Kickstarter.com campaign is set to roll over $2M in fund raising today. !Oops, took too long to blog! It is already over $2M! Original goal was only $800k. It is headed…
Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites For Fundraising – Forbes: So you wanna get funding? The first and fastest way, always, is to go to friends and family. They know you after all, and in spite of that, they may — just may — be willing and able to invest. The next best way is to look around the channels of distribution for your product. They are the companies that will understand and appreciate your product/service fastest….
