I have experienced Venture Café for the first time in Boston, USA, when I was finishing my MBA studies some time ago. Venture Cafe concept appealed to me so much that I attended almost all of its Thursday Gatherings organized in Warsaw this year. Therefore, what is Venture Café, what value it delivers and to […]
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Alec Ross in The Industries of the Future states that blockchain will be to banking, law, and accountancy as what invention of the Internet was to media, commerce, and advertising. Blockchain is expected to lower costs of transactions, disintermediate multiple layers of business activities, and reduce waiting time. In one of the TED Talks Bettina
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Trias de Bes and P. Kotler in “Winning at Innovation. The A-to-F Model” present a unique, structured approach to organizing process of innovation in corporates. They distinguish different roles and responsibilities in the act of entrepreneurial discovery, one of which are creators. Creators have important role of identifying and channeling macrotrends, trends, fashions, and novelties into
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If you believe in self-directed, flexibly scheduled learning to upgrade your skills, this post is for you. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are online interactive learning courses, which significance in recent years has boosted. Thanks to MOOCs anyone and everywhere can experience learning from world top class universities on broad, or industry-specific issues. What’s more,
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You want to invent the next big thing, but you don’t know exactly what? In this post you’ll find how to tap to over 100 million of already recorded, novel, non-obvious, and useful ideas described in English of course. As J.M. Kaplan and A.C. Warren aptly noticed in “Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management” probably the most underutilized
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Institute for the Future founded in 1968 in the US was set up by people, who imagined a world in which it is possible to improve human lives and build better institutions by thinking systematically about the future. As they say the future is everything we can imagine – the fearsome, the inspiring, the inexplicable,
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Co-authored with Dear Maestro Krasen Dimov If you are not a part of big data buzz, and still asks yourself a question what’s in big data for you, the following insights might be found useful by you. Simple query for “Big Data” web interest in Google Trends shows that big data has created a big
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No matter which episode of 23 James Bond movies you’ll watch there are certain things which doesn’t change in creating commander’s Bond superior advantage in fighting his opponents and rescuing the world. I believe these things are informational insights intercepted at the earliest stage possible with an idea on how to make use out of them. In business in
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To the chief innovation officer I admire and conquer the cosmos with. When it comes about living in the cities in 21stcentury, we may observe that still many, which belong to basic needs remain unfulfilled. To fill that void, I think we need more of clever innovations in city spaces, that give a
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I’m often asked how to get inspired or create new business ideas. So let me present you tricks that I use myself to keep my creativity buzzing. 1) I rarely read only one book at time. What keeps me intellectually stimulated is mixing subjects and narrative styles of several books at least. At the moment
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