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Hcc.kurtluther.com/pdf/Luther-Bruckman-Potentials.pdf. Reversing the Decline in Big Ideas - Max Marmer. Many venture capitalists are up in the arms because their returns are down, their funds are drying up, and there appear to be a declining number of entrepreneurs pursuing big ideas. They’ve turned to blaming angel investors for encouraging “an entire generation of entrepreneurs [to build] dipshit companies and hoping that they sell to Google for $25 million.” They say, “this ‘think small’ attitude is driving entrepreneurs who may otherwise build the next Google or Microsoft to create something much less interesting instead.” And this has implications for the whole ecosystem because, “then everyone loses.

No IPO. No 20,000 tech jobs. No new buyer out there for the startups that don’t quite make it.” Unfortunately, venture capitalists have mixed up their causality. These founders don’t want to change to world. [Note: This is the second post of the Transformational Entrepreneurship series. This is not a bad thing for the startup ecosystem or the economy. But times change. What gives?

Yes and No. Article Print By William Deresiewicz The Internet has been feeling its oats lately. One campaign after another, since around the start of last year, has shown that the medium is very good at getting people to say no: no to Mubarak, no to Putin, no to Wall Street, no to ATM fees—and of course, no to Kony. What’s scarcer, in all that, is any kind of intellectual coherence or long-term organization. Although the anarchist principles that animate it long predate the Web, the Occupy movement would seem to be a perfect replica, in physical space, of the conditions of online connectivity. The Internet may be good at fostering reasoned discussion, but it is very, very good, because of its instantaneity, at arousing emotion (the essence of consumer behavior). William Deresiewicz is an essayist and critic. Want to Build Engagement? Be Inclusive - Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind. By Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind | 2:54 PM June 28, 2012 Crowd-sourcing.

Co-creation. User-generated content. No matter which of those buzzwords you prefer, the underlying idea is essentially the same: In the world of commercial media, more and more companies are inviting users to help produce the content that they use. What is Facebook, after all, but an immense platform that allows users to operate simultaneously as generators and consumers of information? Or think of the way that most mainstream media outlets now encourage their readers and viewers to submit news tips, video clips, and the like. A similar shift is under way in certain quarters of the business world. Inclusive leaders take the bold step of relinquishing some measure of control over the development and distribution of organizational content. That’s a big departure from how leaders have traditionally managed the flow of ideas and information within their company. 1. 2. 3. 4.

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