VC Tim Draper On Bitcoin, Going Public And Hong Kong’s Startup Community


If you have even the most minimal exposure to the venture capital industry then Tim Draper is a man who needs no introduction. He’s the “Draper” in the storied VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He’s...
    






Innovators Arise: 8 Rules For How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups


This is the second of a two-part series on how large companies can out-innovate start-ups. Part one is available here.  An Infographic summarizing the 8 rules is available here. In the companion...
    






Three Major Energy Themes to Watch in 2014


Against a backdrop of surging subsidy deficits and public outcry against escalating energy bills, policymakers are faced with tough decisions as they debate ways to support green growth. Yet despite...
    






Drivers For Change – How The World Might Evolve In 2014


New Year is a time to look forward and ponder how the world will change in the months and years to come. It’s not necessarily something you would expect from an automotive company, though – yet that...
    






How An Artist And A Dancer Saved An American City


Culver City, once the heart of California’s movie industry, was dying just a decade ago.  The downtown was decaying.  It had become a sleepy commuter town.  Today, however, people have proclaimed it...
    






Wave of wearable gadgets expected at CES event


Wearable gadgets expected to dominate at CES, but still await mass appeal LAS VEGAS (AP) — Will 2014 be remembered as the year wearable computing took off? Upstart...
    






Tesla And Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment


For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. This process forced companies to release and launch products by model years, and market new and...
    






Five Business Intelligence Predictions For 2014


The following guest post is by Prakash Nanduri, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxata. The dust is finally beginning to clear from the big data explosion, which is a good thing. One of the problems with big...
    






1 Billion PCs At Risk As Windows Error Reporting Sends Reports In Clear


This sounds like a remarkably alarming warning: as many as 1 billion networked PCs around the world are allegedly at risk because Windows Error Reportin (aka Dr. Watson) sends its report in the clear...