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Staff

Innovation Investment Journal current article writers

Peter Friedman: email: peterf@iijiij.com

Debbie Todd: email: debbiet@iijiij.com

Gerry OKane: email: gerryo@iijiij.com

Francis Pearce: email: francisp@iijiij.com

Grzegorz Pietruczuk: email: gregp@iijiij.com

Edward Appleby: email: edwarda@iijiij.com

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Double your (dole) money?

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 22nd Feb 9:44pm

Startup founders, while their venture is still revenue-free, are not really self-employed. Unless they’ve also got a day job, they’re technically unemployed. This fact opens up opportunities for some really imaginative startup incentives

Industry downloaded

Debbie Todd 22nd Feb 12:09am 1 Comment

Today’s dark satanic mills may soon turn darker still, once we start printing everything in three dimensions. Far less satanic, tomorrow’s mills may be our homes, as ‘economy of scale’ becomes uneconomical and mass production goes niche

Accelerator and Incubator News

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 20th Feb 6:46pm 1 Comment

MySpace ex-CEO launches one, Dave ‘colourful language’ McClure hosts an LA Acceleratorfest, TechStar’s Brad Feld on Accelerators vs. Incubators, Cisco’s in-house guy goes solo, and much more

What do neuroscientists really know?

Debbie Todd 15th Feb 9:52pm 2 Comments

Why is neuroscience suddenly such a hot topic right now? Is it just that the latest brain scan technology allows us to see more detail? The answer is yes, but the implications are far bigger

Startup mentoring versus apprenticeship

Peter Friedman 14th Feb 10:52pm 4 Comments

The interaction between startups and startup mentors has a fundamental difference from ‘apprenticeship’, something which has major implications for the future of innovation

Startups below zero

Peter Friedman 11th Feb 4:14pm 2 Comments

So I’m calling it: the margin of costs beyond a founder’s living expenses is now officially zero. What next?

She’s busy composing new biological symphonies

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 8th Feb 12:03am 1 Comment

What’s happening to bioengineering, in the ‘post-life-synthesis-announcement’ era?

How does nature create nano size motors?

Debbie Todd 6th Feb 3:21pm 1 Comment

There’s so much talk of biologically inspired innovation, I thought it was about time to start tracking down briefings on ‘how nature got there first’

Four questions that determine whether an accelerator should accept you

Peter Friedman 5th Feb 10:23pm

Jessica Livingstone offers her own feelings about what Y Combinator wants and I try to read between the lines

Shattering our Customer Relationship Management delusions

Debbie Todd 28th Jan 11:11pm

Ever wondered what would happen if anyone actually bothered to check out those incessant claims everyone makes that ‘customer service standards are constantly improving’?

Educational reform as we know it will die

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 22nd Jan 8:35pm

Renowned educational critic Steve Peha is unconvinced that any of the current or proposed major educational reform initiatives will change anything. Ever.

Source code of human vision recently cracked

Debbie Todd 17th Jan 7:33pm 1 Comment

The more you think about what she’s saying, the more shockingly unthinkable it seems: can we now really see what an eye sees without us needing its brain in order to see it?

Dragging small traditional businesses into the startup innovation ecosystem

Debbie Todd 12th Jan 12:39am 1 Comment

Small traditional businesses? They’re already ‘inside’ the startup world, aren’t they? No. They typically know nothing about such things as Lean Startup, Startup Weekend or Y Combinator, and even when they do, they think it has nothing to do with them. Are they right?

Ironic descendant of massive iron rod-through-brain accident survivor

Debbie Todd 11th Jan 1:05am

One irony is that Fred Gage is one of the world’s leading figures in neuroscience, a discipline which was largely spurred by Phineas Gage’s miraculous survival. Another relevant irony (noted in the Wikipedia article about Fred) is that Phineas (1823 – 1860) had no children