Innovation and adaptation: A123 Systems and Plan B – B123 Systems?
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View ArticleThe Thought Leader Interview: Erik Brynjolfsson
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View ArticleFlashback
A post this morning on Engadget about the similarity between the most recent ad for the iPad, and one for the original Apple Newton gave me a profound sense of déjà vu. It’s far from unusual to see...
View ArticleNetflix’s dirty secret – the content sucks!
Although Netfliix’s Instant Streaming Service is now available on a bewildering variety of devices, has grown explosively and drives an impressive valuation on the stock market, here’s the dirty...
View ArticleEntrepreneur: noun – antonym: French Government
From dictionary.com: en·tre·pre·neur: noun A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk [emphasis added] From the theatre of...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to R&D, Money Can’t Buy You Happiness
Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia brings enormous resources to bear on the future of Windows Phone. Likewise, Google’s purchase of Motorola was intended to leverage its IP, and to apply almost limitless...
View ArticleThe Future of Activity Trackers (Part 2): Incumbents Beware
[Second in a three-part series on the future of activity trackers] With smartphones rapidly absorbing the functionality of activity trackers (see my previous post), where do Nike, Fitbit, Jawbone,...
View ArticleHave Smartphones Entered Their “Post-PC” Era?
BlackBerry’s sale, Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia, and the lukewarm response to the Moto X have left many wondering if the smartphone has entered its PC phase, a phase in which innovation is incremental...
View ArticleApple’s $470 Billion Question
Apple makes news and drives page views: billion dollar court battles with Samsung, the iPhone 5s and iPad Air, and the release of iOS7. Even news of Apple’s launch events spark feverish speculation...
View ArticleConsumer Engagement is the Future of Healthcare
Consumer engagement is proving to be one of the keystones of behavior change for technology companies. There is a huge disparity in how companies are taking advantage of the opportunities created by...
View ArticleTransformation of Retail (Part 2): Enabling Technologies
Imagine this. One day after work you decide to stop by a new boutique where you bought a pair of boots and a jacket. Upon entering the store, a sales associate holding a tablet personally greets you...
View ArticlePowerful Answers to the World’s Toughest Challenges
At CES in January, Verizon announced the winners of its Powerful Answers Award. These talented entrepreneurs will share $10 million in prize money for their solutions to some of the world’s most...
View ArticleThe Future of Activity Trackers (Part 3): The Secret to Long-Term Engagement
[Third in a three-part series on the future of activity trackers] Sustained consumer engagement is emerging as the key challenge for companies developing wearable devices, or those developing...
View ArticleThree Reasons Startups Love Boston
At Endeavour Partners, our work requires us to stay connected to innovation from the ground floor. For this reason, it’s important for us to be where the startups are, where the VCs are, and where the...
View ArticleSmartphone Innovation Isn’t Dead
Over the last few years, the drum beat proclaiming that smartphone innovation is coming to its end has become louder and louder. If you look at smartphones the way people used to compare PCs, it’s easy...
View ArticleInvesting in the Future
As Steve Jobs famously said, ““The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” At Endeavour Partners, we believe that to anticipate the future successfully, it’s not enough to simply predict...
View ArticleHow Do Current Wearables Stack Up?
Endeavour Partners assessed eight wearables currently on the market. We incorporated them into our lives and experienced their strengths and weaknesses first hand. We then assessed each qualitatively,...
View ArticleCreating the Next Great Smartphone
In a Wired Innovation Insights bog post, Chairman Michael Davies talks about how emergence — imaginative and unexpected combinations of components — will result in the next stage of smartphone...
View ArticlePatient Engagement and the Healthcare Ecosystem 2.0
To say the U.S. healthcare ecosystem is not easy to understand is an understatement. It’s colossal and as complex as a spider web. The ecosystem shown here is a neat, simplified stack with the patient...
View ArticleMobile World Congress 2014: Connected, Wearable and Open
The connected car, wearable devices, and enterprise services were the big themes at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Endeavour Partners Chairman Michael Davies and I attended the...
View ArticleAereo’s Case Casts a Pall on Venture Funding
TV networks, technology leaders, cable providers, advertisers, and startups all eagerly await the Supreme Court’s decision in Aereo‘s landmark case. The court’s verdict will have a profound impact on...
View ArticleVerizon Powerful Answers Award 2014
Verizon is looking for innovators who can combine leading technology with powerful ideas to help solve the world’s biggest problems. This $6 million global challenge invites solutions in education,...
View ArticleAssessing IP Value and Risk
Intellectual property (IP) strategy and evaluation are two of the most important issues facing leaders of technology companies today. That’s why Endeavour Partners is now a beta user of the next...
View ArticleUnbundling Cable: Solving the Cord Cutter’s Dilemma
For decision makers in many technology businesses, the shift in the video industry raises some challenging issues. The move toward Over-The-Top (OTT) video services is creating opportunities and...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm: Five Forces of Innovation
To paraphrase Dickens: “…these are the best of times, these are the worst of times, this is the age of wisdom, this is the age of foolishness … we have everything before us, we have nothing before us…”...
View ArticleWhat “Going Viral” Means for Ecosystems
Have you seen the latest Adidas World Cup video: The Dream featuring Lionel Messi? It’s gone viral — every product marketer’s dream with over 38 million views. But when we talk about technology, going...
View ArticleNew White Paper: Inside Wearables (Part 2)
In January 2014, Endeavour Partners published research which showed that behavioral factors – habit formation, social motivation, and goal reinforcement – could make or break wearable engagement. Our...
View ArticleEndeavour Partners’ Chairman at MassTLC Mobile Summit: The Future is Already...
How are smartphones, broadband, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and Big Data affecting our economy? What happens when these five forces converge? Which industries will be impacted — and how?...
View ArticleWearable Tech Can Extend Clinical Analytics
In his recent column in InformationWeek, Chairman Michael A.M. Davies discusses how developing medical wearable technology that utilizes some of the concepts pioneered by consumer wearables could...
View ArticleWearables Making Headlines
Endeavour Partners’ latest white paper has stirred up buzz with reporters across the country. The white paper, “Inside Wearables – Part 2,” a follow-up to our January 2014 white paper “Inside...
View ArticleFive Takeaways for Leadership from the MIT SDM Conference on Systems Thinking
Many companies today find themselves in a perfect storm; the convergence of smartphones, broadband, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and Big Data is fundamentally changing the ways that...
View ArticleVerizon Announces Powerful Answers Award Winners 2014
Verizon is reaching out to innovators with a cause who can combine leading technology with powerful ideas to help solve the world’s biggest problems — the treatment of infectious diseases, education...
View ArticleCongratulations to Verizon’s $1M Prize Winners
Verizon’s Powerful Answers Award recognizes innovations in education, healthcare, sustainability and transportation. Now in its second year, the Award has already contributed solutions to some of the...
View ArticleIndustry Insights Welcome
As head of the Endeavour Partners content team, I’m excited to introduce a new initiative. Complementing our strategy and legal expert work, we’ve rededicated ourselves to providing insightful mobile...
View ArticleThe Psychology of Building Ecosystems
You are walking down a street and come across a house where a party is being thrown. You peek inside and see an elaborate sushi bar with a massive mermaid ice sculpture at its center. There is a band...
View ArticleBuild it and it will fail…unless
– Sunny Ahn, Partner, Endeavour Partners Over the last few decades, we have helped numerous companies launch new products and services. Through this I have learned why customer discovery is so...
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