“I looove Microsoft! Sorry, I promised I wouldn’t do that. Anyways, first up I’d like to thank the folks at The Daily Chive for letting me on the show – er, Web. I mean Bing, er blog, whatever. Anyway, I know you’all wanna hear me bang, Bing (sorry did it again) on about our brand [...]

Randy Komisar from Kleiner Perkins on how the biggest successes can often be bred from failures. This is the kick off to Innovatrs ‘Fail to Succeed’ series.

There are some great entrepreneur interviews at Stanford’s eCorner. The wonder of Stanford is its proximity to so much that is successful in and around Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurs often come from or are linked to Stanford University so they have strong pulling power. Worth checking out.

Entrepreneurs chat at the latest blur’d event about why they became Entrepreneurs and what their biggest issue is right now. Check out – http://innovatrs.com

It was Alain Kane from the FT that way back in the late 1990′s wrote that when all was said and done the greatest beneficiaries of the digital revolution would be the creators of original content. The creators – not distributors, producers or marketers. And so the story has unfolded. The last decade has seen [...]

The always trendy Springwise, featured this week 3 great business ideas, here they are. – Package Tracking via twitter Easy concept. Follow @packagetrack and send a DM with your Ref Number. Whenever there are updates about your package you’ll get a notification. Works with UPS and FedEx – Receipt Farm Ideal for small businesses and [...]

The Glasshouse event in London last night ‘Show Me the Money’ was well attended with some interesting VC’s speaking including London’s latest – PRO Partners. It seems that Spotify and Playfish are the VC’s favorite ventures right now – proving that they still hunt in packs/follow each other like sheep. They repeated that venture investments [...]

Who are you? Why the hell are you an entrepreneur? What’s your @ha idea? So what’s your biggest issue right now? Answer if you dare come and join us at innovatrs.net

GoldenBlogging is a handy new blog – acting as a simple to use guide to social media, blogging and micro-blogging. It provides neat tips on how to exploit social media with a focus right now on Twitter and WordPress. Surprise, surprise. For those still grappling with the above – check it.

Eric Schmidt and Larry Page discuss innovation at their Zeitgeist conference. Virgin Group’s Richard Branson joins them to discuss his innovation priorities including disease control and global warming. Worth a look at.

Innovatrs.com is sponsoring blur’d Meetups for entrepreneurs – initially in London. It is a private member monthly meetup on the West side of London for cool entrepreneurs. We hope it will unearth the next big idea and we plan to launch Innovatrs Start-up TV Network there in the coming months! Join us if you dare.

Following the digital big bang small businesses and start-ups will be able to compete with larger businesses as never before. And anyone will be able to afford to start a small business. Capital will no longer be the scarce resource – ideas, marketing and attitude will. Just look at Twitter. For anyone will be able [...]

Innovatrs is excited to offer full, open access to the Innovate Wiki for anyone to use, learn from and add to. When we developed Innovate, with its 7 stages and 49 phases for taking an idea all the way through to a successful business, we always dreamed of it becoming an open source methodology that [...]

As we look out a few years one tremor looks inevitable: the digital big bang. The point at which the tipping trend to connected networks and devices explodes us into a new dawn. Today there are 3.5 billion mobile phone users each connected to one network or another – in cities across the globe many using [...]

TechCrunch recently put out a list of the top 100 ‘networked’ venture capitalists – following some interesting research. They defined ‘networked’ by the number of co-investors that they had in deals and rated firms by the number of exits they had achieved. The top 10 lists most of the usual suspects. Which got me thinking [...]

I was spoilt. Two companies ago I was introduced to Bill Draper III – a legend in Silicon Valley and reputedly the West Coasts king of early stage venture capital. He invested in the company I ran at the time and sat on its board. He was a legend for a good reason – he [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/rfwJWwOiGVE" width="440" height="270" allowfullscreen="true" fvars="fs=1" /] Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel talking about the founding of The Elders and the importance of listening to global conversations given the power of new mass communications – do they mean Twitter? And what comes after Twitter?

A former editor of Windows magazine, Mike Elgan, illustrated the difference between ordinary brands and charismatic brands in two succinct sentences: “Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is famous for a crazy video in which he yells, “I—love—this—company!” In the case of Apple, it’s the customers who shout that.” Charismatic brands use Art-in-Product (TM) and bridge customer experience to vision. Design [...]

Tim Brown of IDEO wrote an interesting article on Participation in Design. The premise is that innovation will and should increasingly come from groups, not individuals, crowds not buddies – the social Web. I could not agree more. The question is how do we design the next set of systems to drive crowd innovation and what [...]

According to BusinessWeek There is growing evidence that the US’ innovation shortfall of the past decade is not only real but may also have contributed to today’s financial crisis. It seems that the major innovations promised just a decade ago, such as truly fast broadband for all, 3G everywhere, cures for cancer, electric cars and [...]