Innovation often starts with the ordinary.
All product ventures incubated in the Muni collective (like Weird inc.) are designed first and foremost to Do Good by means of radical openness.
Introducing The Unusual Method
From Unusual Ventures’ inception, our mission has been clear: to redefine seed stage investing and build a firm that would provide founders with a distinct advantage through the hardest leg of a startup journey—from Idea to Product Market fit. Today we’ve taken an important step towards fulfilling our mission. We are proud to officially make available The Unusual Method and our Unusual Field Guide.
How China became the first middle-income tech superpower - LSE Business Review
Middle-income countries are generally not leaders in innovation. But China’s development is a striking exception to this pattern.
It Was Never About Innovation
This is the first in a series of articles about innovation and open computing. Because it’s a holiday time of year in the USA, I’ve decided that these next few articles will be a detour…
Normal science
Normal science, identified and elaborated on by Thomas Samuel Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,[1] is the regular work of scientists theorizing, observing, and experimenting within a settled paradigm or explanatory framework.[2] Regarding science as puzzle-solving,[3] Kuhn explained normal science as slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory, without questioning or challenging the underlying assumptions of that theory.
What’s Unusual about Unusual Ventures?
We were recently on NBC’s Sand Hill Road podcast hosted by Scott McGrew. Here are some highlights from our conversation.
Open models in perpetual catch-up
The open-closed gap, distillation, innovation timescales, how open models win, specialized models, what’s missing, etc.
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
100 years of whatever this will be
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
Disruptive innovation
In business theory, disruptive innovation is innovation that creates a new market and value network or enters at the bottom of an existing market and eventually displaces established market-leading firms, products, and alliances. In theory, disruptive innovation makes it hard for leading firms to stay at the top of their industry. The term, "disruptive innovation" was popularized by the American academic Clayton Christensen and his collaborators beginning in 1995.
The Weird Science of Naming New Products (Published 2015)
To find the perfect brand, leave no word unturned.
Who—and What—Will Customers Become? - DesignIntelligence
Innovation transforms the customer as well as the product
has anyone done an explainer on why standard.site is cool? I can usually see the promise in new developments here and I'm sure I'm missing something but I'm just not getting it
