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Posts tagged: innovation

Too many ideas

Photo: PhotoDu.de Yesterday, I saw a relatively new iPhone app called App Incubator, with which anyone can send in ideas for a new iPhone app. A development team will review the ideas and decide whether to build the application. If they build it and get it into the Apple app store as a paid application, the […]

Pick ways to fail affordably

Photo: gilles chiroleu About halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, off the west side of I-25, stands someone’s great idea that didn’t make it. Originally designed as an outlet mall, it failed to attract enough customers and was bought up by a Native American group that renamed it “Traditions!” and restyled it as one-stop shopping for […]

Two elements of success

Photo: Michael Dunn! Success results from a good mix of will and sensitivity. Edison had the will to invent (from the Latin invenire, meaning “to find”) the incandescent lightbulb. Although thousands of his experiments failed to result in a working lightbulb, he persevered. His will helped him overcome setbacks and non-starters. Edison also had the sensitivity […]