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What Can I Do With This? Usefulness
This is the 4th of 5 posts on patenting your ideas. This episode: Usefulness. This one is an easy one. Take one look at the invention and ask yourself. “Is this useful?”. There are many…
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Thinly Veiled Sales Messages Are 90% Of The Internet
Do you remember the days when selling a product meant advertising, PR, cold calling and direct mail? At least you could tell the difference between advertising and truth then. I was reading…
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Boredom Is The Best
A Little Boredom Helps You Innovate My wife and I were waiting in line at one of our favorite ramen places here in the Bay Area, Santouka (they have the absolute best broth…
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Unsubscribe This, Buddy!
When I Say Unsubscribe I Mean Immediately, Right Now. Recently, I’ve been on a tear to try to get to “Inbox Zero” – or at least “Inbox Everything Read That I Need…
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Can Only Unicorns Be Innovative?
Is Your Innovation Program A Failure Because It Didn’t Produce a Unicorn? I was at an innovation outpost event (innovation “outposts,” in their definition, are offices that companies who are not based…
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The Next Hot Space: Chat Bots and Conversational Interfaces
The rise of the Smart (and not so smart) Chat Bots. I’ve talked at length before about the Seamless World, wherein some not too distant future, big data, the internet of things,…
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How to Create Jobs For Humans
Where are the Jobs For Humans In The Gig Economy While the gig/on-demand/sharing economy has been touted as the growth of a new economic (and innovation) engine, and more jobs, even by…
