Category Archives: Disruption

Biology, populations and VC

Posted on February 2, 2017 by flybrand1976

The meadow voles we found each morning in our traps were tiny, hardy animals who endured the weighing and tagging before being re-released. There were thousands of them in the fields of Blandy Farm or Mountain Lake, the field research … Continue reading →

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6 Ways to Get the Most out of Day 2 – #ISUM16

Posted on November 17, 2016 by flybrand1976

It’s Day 2 of the Internet Summit in Raleigh, NC.  Here are six ways to get the most out of it, based on what was shared on Day 1. Enjoy.  You’re out of the office.  Like Al Madrigal said – … Continue reading →

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Under Bidding a Bridge to Nowhere

Posted on September 8, 2016 by flybrand1976

If a customer isn’t 100% certain about the value of a product, then they’ll want to minimize their committed costs.  From an ROI standpoint, their R (the return) is uncertain and has risk.  To maximize their ROI, they will want … Continue reading →

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Scaling in Europe: An easy (8 year) plan

Posted on September 7, 2016 by flybrand1976

Disclaimer:  We sell industrial equipment, not software.  Also, we were spun out of a Czech university, so it wasn’t a ‘start-from-nothing’ type startup. We scaled a startup out of Europe, specifically – out of the Czech Republic.  Our market is … Continue reading →

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Labor Day: Technology, Trade and Labor

Posted on September 5, 2016 by flybrand1976

Yet the campaign had completely failed to do what a political campaign is supposed to do – bring the nation to full awareness and earnest discussion of its most crucial issues and lead to a verdict that would put those issues … Continue reading →

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The World Economic Forum’s ‘Top 10 Emerging Technologies’

Posted on September 2, 2016 by flybrand1976

Nanosensors!  Autonomous vehicles! [Yawn.]  We’ve seen these before. Organs-on-chips? Optogenetics?!?  Now this is interesting. The Davos-based World Economic forum released a list of 10 emerging technologies that made a tour of the press a few weeks ago.  There is no … Continue reading →

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Project Planning: Stay out of the (San Francisco) Mud

Posted on August 29, 2016 by flybrand1976

San Francisco’s $350 MM Millennium Tower is sinking into the mud beneath it.  Finished in 2009, some now believe that it could sink as much as 3 feet – greater than initial estimates of ‘possibly an inch in the event … Continue reading →

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Technology Forecasting and Predictions: 2016 (7 of 7)

Posted on January 25, 2016 by flybrand1976

DTNS’s 2016 prediction show, #2657, was published on December 31, 2015 and along with the diverse group of hosts, there was a broad range of predictions in many areas. Virtual reality dominated from an air time standpoint.  With multiple big … Continue reading →

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Is that a Disruptive Prediction? (6 of 7)

Posted on January 24, 2016 by flybrand1976

“And two years later, what come out? PlayStation 2.” – Ali G Some predictions are linear – like that made by Sasha Baron Cohen’s character Ali G above.  Sitting in 1993 it might have been disruptive to predict Sony’s entrance … Continue reading →

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Tech Forecasting and Predictions 2015 (4 of 7)

Posted on December 24, 2015 by flybrand1976

After listening to six years of tech prediction shows  – it seemed only fair to add my own predictions based on industrial and slower moving technologies.  I’m attempting to follow the rules as laid out by DTNS and the observations made … Continue reading →

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