Helen Proudman, entrepreneur at Innovatrs.net, explains how she built Funky Wood with her husband, Eddie. The company is a supplier of modern, contemporary interior wood products to the UK and abroad. Helen is an entrepreneur with a vision, passion, and nous.

Thomas Hodges, award winning and internationally acclaimed photographic artist, founded the art movement “Imaginism” in 2006. His goal is to become an international household name in the world of photographic art and to establish a foundation, so that his legacy can continue to serve others. We believe that artists are the purest form of entrepreneur. [...]

I recently read a great article at Fast Company on focus groups. Focus groups are an interesting phenomenon – probably overused by big companies and underused by start-ups. But focus groups come with big ass health warnings. It’s better to use a focus group to help with small details and feedback rather than supporting make [...]

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 [...]

IDEO video on what organizations will look like in 18 months. Not bad.