NetAppVoice: Crowdsourcing: Great For Your Business (A Handy Primer) – Forbes:
Here’s a quick overview of Crowd sourcing… and the genius of crowds.
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After DNA patent ruling, Congress must encourage genetic research – The Washington Post
After DNA patent ruling, Congress must encourage genetic research – The Washington Post:
Wow, a unanimous ruling!
This is a good thing. Firms cannot patent DNA. That’s a discovery, not an invention.
It appears however, that they can patent synthetic DNA, so if they invent a new type of….
… of seed or
… new type of person,Then they can patent it.
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Tiny movie: IBM makes nano-sized film about little boy by pushing molecules around (with video)
Tiny movie: IBM makes nano-sized film about little boy by pushing molecules around (with video):
This is too cool…
IBMers have too much time on their hands when they have time to push atoms around and make a stop-motion video of it.
Kinda makes you wonder on the possible BIG applications of something so very small! ???
A boy and his atom.
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eBook Patent Primer 2.0, Patents, the Great Equalizer of our Time! An Overview of Intellectual Property with Patenting Cost Estimates for Inventors and Entrepreneurs (Perpetual Innovation): Elmer B. Hall, Robert M. Hinkelman: Amazon.com: Kindle Store
Kindle eBook version of the Patent Primer 2.0 is here!!!
Of course you can still buy the hard copy of the Primer 2.0 over a LuLu Press: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/SBPlan
Patent Primer 2.0 is an overview of IP protection in the US and globally with a focus on patents and the patenting process. Intellectual property – especially patents – provides one of the greatest competitive advantages of our time. Patents are a great equalizer, putting the individual inventor on the same footing as corporate giants. The Patent Primer is an update from the original edition that was included as Appendix B in Perpetual Innovation, Hall and Hinkelman’s 2007 patent commercialization book. (Look for edition 2.0!)With so much depending on intellectual property, inventors and entrepreneurs must have a good understanding of IP tools to be successful. Patent Primer 2.0 is what everyone needs before launching new product development and invention commercialization. It gives a quick overview of IP and brand building. It addresses the various patent-protection alternatives. The Primer offers example of costs for a small entity to bring a patent-protected invention to market-readiness. The 2.0 version of the Primer includes major changes in U.S. patent laws and the new fees initiated in March 2013.Hall and Hinkelman are executives of Strategic Business Planning Company (SBP), a company that helps businesses and individuals Plan for Sustainable Success™. SBP helps innovators build strong IP Business Plans. The company is active in sustainability and advocates initiatives that offer payback of investment in 1 to 5 years while delivering perpetual savings to the business, to the community and to the environment – win, win, win! -
This Company Just Admitted Its Business Model Is Broken – AMZN, NFLX, P, SIRI – Foolish Blogging Network
Broken as designed. It is always fun to see a business model that is broken.
How long before the company run out of cash?
This is reminiscent of the DotCom Bomb where all these Internet companies had no income and no profits. They got lots of funding, though. So this run through of cash was referred to as “burn rate”: how many months of cash did the company have before it completely runs out.
Ouch! 🙁
As the bubble burst, all funding for all of the DocCom companies evaporated. Even worse, the margin calls for all of the investors forced investors to sell everything resulting in a reinforcing downward spiral.
Double Ouch.
One thought, of course is that the increased volume/subscribers will result in the ability to change the paradigm.
I don’t see how you fix Amazon into this mix however. Jeff Bezos makes a killing off of every book sold, even if the author doesn’t.
Keywords: Amazon, AMNZ, NetFlix, Pandora, business model, broken model. burn rate
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