the great thing about working with yet2.com is that we get to see so many interesting new technologies. Thousands of them. A few really impress us. One is ZetrOZ and their revolutionary ultrasound therapy technology. They took first place in yet2.com’s recent Step2Change Technology Competition last month.
Join us 19 July 2011, 11:00am EDT for a Webinar on ZetrOZ.
Register here for the webinar: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/812392706
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I love failure. I have to. Been doing it all my life. Which is why this video from Kathryn Schulz hit home.
I think she is correct, when she implies that the secret to success is a higher tolerance for failure and low tolerance for not trying again…and for not achieving ultimate success.
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This is an excellent article from VenturBeat and written by Anthony Ha. It ties into a blog I wrote on the New Now. A key mega-trend is wireless speed.
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman presented his vision today for “Web 3.0” at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin.
Hoffman, who is now a partner at Greylock Partners, sounded dismissive of most of the buzzwords that have been tied to Web 3.0 — bandwidth, “appification”, video, location, real-time, and mobile. (He said mobile is probably the most significant trend of the bunch, but it’s “kind of boring”.) Instead, he said that the next big trend in the evolution of the Web, and the next big opportunity for entrepreneurs, is data.
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Join us to hear how experienced deal-makers are succeeding, at our upcoming webinar:
Conference Preview: Successful Deal-making with Small Companies April 21, 2011, 11:00am EST.
We’ll be discussing relationship building, cross-cultural appreciation, ongoing consulting, and step-wise deal structures, among other topics. We’ve gathered representatives from both the small and big company perspectives to share their thoughts — tune in to learn how you can hasten and improve your own deal process.
Webinar speakers:
| Steve Baggott, Director, External Business Development, Procter & Gamble | |
| Robert Michelson, President, Butler Home Products | |
| Dr. Greg Williams, Director of Research and Development, Monteco Ltd. |
April’s webinar is an exclusive preview of a live panel discussion to be held at yet2.com’s upcoming Open Innovation conference in May, in Boston.
Register today for the Successful Deal-making with Small Companies Preview Webinar here:
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This is a great post from Rob Go’s Blog. I love his blog and though it was worth sharing.
I love playing sports (although as I’ve gotten older, I’ve become more of a watcher than a doer). In particular, I love the mental side of sports. I’m convinced that sports are a great training ground for many different disciplines. I remember when I was interviewing for Spark, excellence at some sport was an important factor in the hiring process. Of course, it’s a good measure of competitiveness, but I think it’s even deeper than that.
This got me thinking about the emotional and mental characteristics that are important for entrepreneurs, and the sports that best hone these characteristics. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but there were three sports that really hone a particular strength that I see in great entrepreneurs. Read the rest of this entry »
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We’ve been buying and selling patents at yet2.com for over 11 years now. Over those years we have seen the areas of patent interest change quite substantially. Today we released our 2011 Patent Buying Areas of Interest report. This years’ report breaks patents sales into four areas; Consumer Electronics, Wireless, Healthcare and Lighting. Contact us for the full report, but below is a summary.
Most patent transactions are in industries where there are a high number of patents per product. Consumer electronics leads the pack. We are seeing an increase in interest in patents around the edges of consumer electronics, like hardware casing and metal bending. The patent market is coming back to a ‘new normal’, after the 2008 market disruption. While transaction activity has picked back up, it’s still at 50% of pre 2008.
Patent Buying Interest Areas (2011)
1. Consumer Electronics
a) Image Capture / Image processing
b) Audio/Video
c) Memory
d) Compression / Decompression (“codec”)
e) Displays
f) Battery / Portable Power
g) Sensors Read the rest of this entry »
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The motion of capital is fundamental to our economy.
Over the past couple years the market has been becoming more risk adverse. This is nothing new, especially in the wake of the 2008 crash. What is very interesting to me is the flow of capital.
Since 2006 there has been a decrease in the amount of capital going into equity mutual funds. The amount of money going in went negative in 2009 and has stayed there.
Since 2006 there has been an increase in the amount of capital going into bonds mutual funds.
Are we about to see a Bond bubble burst?
Will that capital move to equities and rally the market?
My predication is capital will start moving back to equities, and when it happens – hang on – we’re in for quite a ride. In 2-3 years when the developed worlds economies are growing at normal rates, and the developing world is growing at its current rates, we will see a spectacular rally in the equity markets.
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Kids can teach a lot about ourselves and the world. Kids start out as entrepreneurs. Somewhere along way, when we grow up we can forget to dream big. We forget how to ask questions. We forget how to be an entrepreneur.
This is a great video clip, to remind us how important entrepreneurship is, to remind us to think big, to ask questions – to be remember what is was like to be a kid.
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A Trip of a Lifetime
August 5, 20113 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films…..
= a trip of a lifetime.
move, eat, learn
Rick Mereki : Director, producer, additional camera and editing
Tim White : DOP, producer, primary editing, sound
Andrew Lees : Actor, mover, groover