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A Lateral Music Album

Destination Innovation

It was founded in 2011 by Jack Stratton. Vulfpeck is an American funk band based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The band wanted to organize a tour for their small but loyal fan base. The problem was that they had no money to fund the costs of the tour.

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Focus on Evidence, Not Opinions.

Strategyzer Innovation

In 2011, entrepreneur Peter Reinhardt was working with his team within the framework of the Y combinator. After 2 failed ideas and with only 6 months of funding left, he felt a real pressure to figure out what direction they should pursue.

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What’s the key to success in corporate-startup collaboration?

HYPE Innovation

While research on corporate-startup collaboration is not new , it has attracted increasing interest in recent years.

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Unlocking the Power of Cause and Effect

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2011, IBM’s Watson system beat the best human players in the game show, Jeopardy! Since then, machines have shown that they can outperform skilled professionals in everything from basic legal work to diagnosing breast cancer. It seems that machines just get smarter and smarter all the time.

System 80
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Eating your own dog food

Idea to Value

For example, analysis of mutual fund managers in 2011 found nearly half of the managers did not themselves invest in the core funds they were advising customers to buy. Or I can give an example of my own start at one of the world’s biggest consulting firms.

Software 242
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Software Isn’t Going to Eat the World

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2011, technology pioneer Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services,” he wrote, “the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired — the dream of every cyber-visionary of […].

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Why we value our own ideas so highly: The IKEA effect

Idea to Value

The bias made waves when the research was first published in 2011 , showing how people would place a higher valuation on things they produced. The IKEA Effect results in people placing a disproportionately high valuation on things which they partially created, even if they are worse than higher-quality alternatives produced by someone else.