Diabetes and Other Diseases being studied by Drug Firms and NIH


Over ten large organizations that manufacture drugs have joined hands with the NIH. Their goal is to discover cures for some of the latest diseases and diabetes which resist a medical solution. Some...

How Facebook Memes Evolve And Spread


As a publisher, understanding the flow of information online is as important as a civil engineer understanding traffic congestion. Unfortunately, so much of what takes place online has been...
    






Why Great Entrepreneurs Are Older Than You Think


How old do you think someone should be for the best chance at entrepreneurial success? If you said 20, or 22, or 25, you are not alone. It wasn’t that long ago that age signified wisdom. But in the...
    






Innovation Knocks, But At The Back Door Of The Farmhouse: Giannola Nonino And The Transformation Of Grappa


It was the mid-1970s in northern Italy, and Giannola Nonino had a business idea that would revolutionize an industry: to transform the ragged, industrialized distillation of grappa production into...
    






Business’s Worst Nightmare: Big Bang Disruption


“Address books, video cameras, pagers, wristwatches, maps, books, travel games, flashlights, home telephones, dictation recorders, cash registers, Walkmen, Day-Timers, alarm clocks, answering...
    






Scorsese’s Wolf Of Wall Street: Fifth Column Or Reality?


My quarrel with The Wolf of Wall Street ain’t with the protagonist, Jordan Belfort, more glutton than carnivore, but with Martin Scorsese. Leo gave him his $20 million worth, but the film is a...
    






Forsake Start-Up Envy: Three Reasons Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Start-Ups


This is the first of a two-part series on how large companies can out-innovate start-ups. Part Two is available here.  An accompanying infographic is also available. An executive recently left his...
    






The Media Startup Getting 20 Year Olds To Talk About More Than Cat Pictures


The newsroom of the future will probably resemble the three airy, wood-floored rooms PolicyMic rents in Midtown Manhattan. On the ninth floor of a nondescript office building, 14 editors and writers...