Archive for October, 2006
Blogging Starter Checklist
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Mon, 30 Oct 2006, at 18:29 , in Blogging
Rajesh Setty created an excellent Squidoo Lens on starting your blog: Blogging Starter Checklist.
The highlights:
Updated: post on Homaro Cantu
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Sun, 29 Oct 2006, at 10:18 , in Updates
Updated: post on Homaro Cantu.
Spencer Tunick, innovative photographer
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Sun, 29 Oct 2006, at 10:09 , in Innovators
A highly innovative photographer, Spencer Tunick’s meticulous photos bring together colossal numbers of nude voluntaries to convey messages. His models are volunteers who receive a signed photo as a reward.
Düsseldorf 1 (Museum Kunst Palast) 2006
According to Spencer, his “installations” (organizing lots of people in a single location and get them to strip down for his […]
Non-revolutionary inventions
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Sat, 28 Oct 2006, at 10:15 , in Innovation
Forbes Entrepreneur has a new article dumbly named Crazy Twists On Ancient Technology, in which "non-revolutionary" inventions - also called "evolutionary" inventions or "improvements" are somewhat bashed in the head and labeled "crazy". WRONG. These "improvements" on a sometimes "ancient" technology are very frequently what makes a certain product or service a success. Check the […]
Blogging: Year 1
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Fri, 27 Oct 2006, at 03:20 , in Blogging, Announcements
It’s been a year since I started blogging, time to take a step back, look at signs and learn some lessons.
On both my strictly personal blog and my business blog right here at venturecreators.net/blog, I believe I’m finding my voice.
I use my STRICTLY personal blog to keep a diary of what I’m thinking, doing and […]
A critical view of the European VC industry and Incubators
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Tue, 24 Oct 2006, at 19:56 , in Innovation, Entrepreneurship
David Hornik of August Capital, a Silicon Valley VC, posted on his VentureBlog about the VC industry in Europe. David is highly critical of the European VC industry and he is rightly so: despite some progress, innovators that require financing have a much tougher time here in Europe than in the US.
Tornado Insider has, as usual, the […]
Cradle to Cradle reaches umbrella design
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Mon, 23 Oct 2006, at 16:21 , in Eco-sustainability
Cradle to Cradle reaches umbrella design. As usual, check out the Wikipedia to learn more, or the Umbrella Inside design competition.
These are the finalists:
Awareness and action through movies
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Thu, 19 Oct 2006, at 00:43 , in Ideas, Eco-sustainability, Innovation
An interesting movement that has been bubbling up to the surface in the last few years is that of using movies to *really* educate.
Movies like The Insider (1999), Erin Brokovich (2000), Super Size Me (2004), Syriana (2005), Lord of War (2005)and more recently An Inconvenient Truth (2006) have an increasingly serious and dramatic tone, trying not only to […]
Business Cards unleashed
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Wed, 11 Oct 2006, at 22:25 , in Reflections, Innovation
Reading Kathy Sierra’s always excellent blog posts, I stumbled into a discussion on the Usability of Business Cards. It is clear they are a critical business tool that has proved its value over and over again. Or has it?
Perhaps the cards you’ve designed and hand over aren’t that efficient at what they should do:
1. […]
Hydrogen Reality Check
By Diogo Lemos Pereira on Mon, 2 Oct 2006, at 14:09 , in Technology, Eco-sustainability
From the Technology Review
Fuel cells won't significantly dent fuel consumption for 50 years — we need to look elsewhere. By Kevin Bullis High oil prices and concerns about the long-term availability of oil have U.S. government officials singing the praises of hydrogen fuel cells as a solution to our nation's transportation energy […]
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