Somehow the concept of transparency made its way into both my lunch and dinner conversations yesterday. It’s a worn topic, really, usually focused on privacy concerns and reputation (for the individual) or business opportunity, competitive pressure, or again, reputation (for the enterprise).  
At dinner, though, with a good friend, we briefly […]

I’ve heard famed inventor Ray Kurzweil give his “Acceleration of Innovation” talk twice now and each time he tickled the audience with a rather fantastic notion: live another 20 years or so, and you’ll live forever.
Recently, the concept has received some business press: first in Portfolio’s “Never Say Die” (December […]

In the vein of napkin-drawn business plans, enjoy this index card argument for exercising your inner child, courtesy of Jessica Hagy:

An analysis: Heaps of imagination at a startup yields heaps of money. Or is it heaps of imagination and heaps of money yield a startup?
Presumably the latter, under the assumption […]