I didn’t fully appreciate the lessons that I received from Larry Keeley’s Innovation Frontiers class last semester until I started to explore the X-prize model in depth.
Listen to their elevator statement:
“The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The Foundation fosters innovative, high-profile competitions that [...]
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The Identifiable Victim Effect
24Dec06I was reading Made To Stick..(I know, I know… I’m slow. it takes me a while to FINISH books because when I find something interesting I have to run to google or wikipedia for further research.. its a sad pathology, really).
Well in this case (as it does rarely), it proved fruitful.
Made To Stick references some [...]
Page visits Aravind
14Aug06DNA - Money - Google’s co-founder Larry Page has an ‘eye’ on Madurai - Daily News & Analysis visited Madurai, site of Aravind Health Care clinic in India– Google.org is going to be donating to Aravind in the form of engineering time and ads. The first line of this article excited me a [...]
Good news, fellow world citizens. Turns out we have hope after all. The first richest man in the world and the second richest man in the world are both whole-heartedly dedicated to making the world a better place. Gates announced he’s leaving Msoft to work on the world’s [...]
