RIVER INSIGHTS

11/20/2017

"By 2020, job creation related to Artificial Intelligence will move into positive territory - reaching two million net new jobs in 2025"

In 2020, Artificial Intelligence (AI) will become a positive net job motivator, creating 2.3M jobs while eliminating only 1.8M jobs. By 2020, IoT technology will be in 95% of electronics for new product designs. These and many other insights are being presented today at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2017.

09/05/2017

Fingers crossed for Irma...
http://www.aei.org/publication/the-vital-role-of-tech-and-information-in-responding-to-hurricane-harvey/

Natural disasters stress every part of human society, but technology and information have played a vital role in assisting the response to Hurricane Harvey.

04/05/2016

The importance of having "Innovation Leaders"

http://fortune.com/2016/04/04/the-leadership-quality-that-truly-separates-disneys-bob-iger-from-his-peers/

Disney CEO Bob Iger is a true innovation leader. He places faith in his creative directors and allows them to propose original ideas.

09/23/2014

30th blog on wearable technology http://wearableviews.com/2014/09/22/varying-forecasts-concurrent-segmentation/

Wearables growth forecasts continue to be all over the place. The key question is when the market is going to tip from hype to reality. However, nobody seems to be questioning any longer the real...

09/03/2014

The biggest risk we can take is not to take any risks at all
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/02/the-case-for-intelligent-failure-to-invent-the-future/

The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In the past, experts with spreadsheets and econometric models or social scientists with subscale studies..

09/23/2013

Key lessons from failure: Have a product in demand rather than just a good idea, worry less about competition than demand, avoid spending time on press or media, test, test and test again, know when to listen to feedback, build for enterprises rather than just consumers... know when to move on / shut down...

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/22/why-startups-fail-a-postmortem-for-social-newsreader-flud-and-what-to-take-from-sonars-demise/

TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.

09/03/2013

By writing "out loud" your thoughts and activities in blog posts and discussion threads, you and your coworkers could be laying the groundwork for your future company to be more innovative than you could ever imagine.
http://www.informationweek.com/social-business/ideation_innovation_management/innovation-begs-for-a-crock-pot-not-blen/240160366

Everyone's trying to create environments for rapid innovation, but some ideas need to simmer for a while.

08/16/2013

Internet disruptions in media, finance and other industries
http://www.informationweek.com/global-cio/interviews/creative-destruction-of-internet-age-uns/240159669

Don't blame Jeff Bezos and the Silicon Valley set for the digital disruption in a range of industries, from journalism to railroads. Get on board.

08/03/2013

Crazy numbers?.... In a recent analysis, Cisco estimates there will be 50 billion things connected to the Internet by 2020, including billions of sensor-packed mobile devices, coffeemakers, cardiac monitors, cars, supermarket shelves, cattle, thermostats, and skin, just to name a few. According to Cisco 50 billion things represents just 2.7 percent of all the things that will be on the planet in 2020.

06/06/2013

Marc Andreessen: "Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure." Why? In a great market -- a market with lots of real potential customers -- the market pulls product out of the startup. Conversely, in a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world and an absolutely killer team, and it doesn't matter -- you're going to fail.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070701074943/http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the-pmarca-gu-2.html

Marc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur, Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Opsware, Ning

05/30/2013

Would't I like to be this conventionally wise...
FORTUNE -- Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report is a little like Cokie Roberts's Monday morning appearances on NPR -- a litany of points of unsurprising conventional wisdom.
That doesn't make it valueless: Like Roberts's weekly reports, Meeker's annual presentations put a lot of disparate information in context and offer a guide to what is, well, the conventional wisdom: Beltway wisdom in Roberts's case, Silicon Valley wisdom in Meeker's. Meeker is one up on Roberts in this respect: She offers a lot of data largely generated in-house at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, where the Internet analyst is a partner. Her report, presented Wednesday at the AllThingsD conference, was, as always, accompanied by an insane number of slides.
http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2013-internet-trends

Partnering with great entrepreneurs to build the next big thing.

05/21/2013

"Over the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies called the lean startup has begun to replace old regimen: Instead of executing business plans, operating in stealth mode and releasing fully functional prototypes, young ventures are testing hypotheses, gathering early and frequent customer feedback and showing minimum viable products to prospects. This new process recognizes that searching for a business model (which is the primary task facing a startup) is entirely different from executing against that model (which is what established firms do)
https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25903&i=25905&cs=f85785d3580feb87e2bce1535af10c2f