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Economist Innovation Event: Financial Models, Broken or Not?

Saturday, 27 March, 2010

Team breakout sessions from this week’s Economist & Berkeley Haas School of Business presented on-stage: innovative ideas around the areas of finance, new business models, education, healthcare, energy and sustainability.

Below is the idea presented on the new Innovative Financial Models that can also improve sustainability within organizations. Also refer to the more extensive summary of the event.

Out of Hospitals & Into Your Health

Friday, 26 March, 2010

Team breakout sessions from this week’s Economist & Berkeley Haas School of Business presented on-stage: innovative ideas around the areas of finance, new business models, education, healthcare, energy and sustainability.

Below is the idea presented on healthcare entitled: Out of Hospitals and Into Your Health, which won the audience sentiment at the end of the event. Also refer to the more extensive summary of the event.

Out of Hospitals & Into Your Health

Friday, 26 March, 2010

Team breakout sessions from this week’s Economist & Berkeley Haas School of Business presented on-stage: innovative ideas around the areas of finance, new business models, education, healthcare, energy and sustainability.

Below is the idea presented on healthcare entitled: Out of Hospitals and Into Your Health, which won the audience sentiment at the end of the event. Also refer to the more extensive summary of the event.

Economist Innovation Event: Declaration of Interdependence

Friday, 26 March, 2010

Team breakout sessions from this week’s Economist & Berkeley Haas School of Business presented on-stage: innovative ideas around the areas of finance, new business models, education, healthcare, energy and sustainability.

Below is the idea presented on the new Declaration of Interdependence. Also refer to the more extensive summary of the event.

Economist Innovation Event: Declaration of Interdependence

Friday, 26 March, 2010

Team breakout sessions from this week’s Economist & Berkeley Haas School of Business presented on-stage: innovative ideas around the areas of finance, new business models, education, healthcare, energy and sustainability.

Below is the idea presented on the new Declaration of Interdependence. Also refer to the more extensive summary of the event.

Economist Innovation Event: On Education

Friday, 26 March, 2010

The team breakout sessions from this week’s Economist & Berkeley Haas School of Business presented on-stage: innovative ideas around the areas of finance, new business models, education, healthcare, energy and sustainability. Below is the idea presented for education. Also refer to the more extensive summary of the event.

Economist Innovation Event: On Education

Friday, 26 March, 2010

The team breakout sessions from this week’s Economist & Berkeley Haas School of Business presented on-stage: innovative ideas around the areas of finance, new business models, education, healthcare, energy and sustainability. Below is the idea presented for education. Also refer to the more extensive summary of the event.

Joby’s Gorillapods Have Some Fun Stories

Wednesday, 24 March, 2010

Joby Joby’s CEO Forrest Baringer-Jones tells a group of 75+ lifestyle, food and technology bloggers at an event in San Francisco a number of compelling stories of how photographers around the world use Joby’s Gorillapods, one of the coolest travel accessories I’ve come across in awhile.

The bloggers left with a “pod” in hand and while I can’t deny I’m a happy camper, I did put in my request for purple ones. The entire team is fabulous and went above and beyond answering questions and their passion for their products were addictive.

Kawasaki Tips Young Entrepreneurs Who Show Off Consumer STUFF

Wednesday, 24 March, 2010

Guy Kawasaki was once again in true form last night during a very amusing keynote at the San Francisco Swagapalooza consumer brands event at the DNA Lounge in SOMA. He gave a number of useful pointers to the young entrepreneurs in the room who were touting their latest products as well as advice on how to get through the ugly with the fun, in other words, how to deal with bozos and goes on to describe the various bozos you’re likely to come across. The question is did Guy coin the term bozocity?, which he describes is “like the flu.”

He says of partnerships, it is when you are describing a relationship where neither party makes money.

Click on play for a laugh. (I decided to tag this Education in YouTube; if only you could check more than one category, I’d include Leadership or Entrepreneurship and Comedy. Tom Foremski over at Silicon Valley Watcher wrote a much more comprehensive blog post about the experience and mood of the evening.

Fotobabble’s Talking Photos Admidst Major Consumer Brands at DNA Lounge

Wednesday, 24 March, 2010

Fotobabel-logo - NEW Below is Fotobabble’s CEO Kamal Shah on the Swagapalooza stage demoing the various use cases of talking photos, which can be created within seconds directly from your web browser or from your iPhone — and then quickly email to a friend, or upload to your Facebook or Twitter stream. In addition to using it for consumer use, Fotobabble can be used as a new social media marketing tool for brands.

Some of the tweeters I hung out with on-site included @baconhotsauce, @fogday, @lickmyspoon, @triplepundit, @maryvincent, @organicjar, @mfauscette, @Jeters, @cookingwithamy, @tomforemski, @scobelizer, @kshah, @fotobabble and the Swedes from Bambuser, who tout a streaming video product.