How 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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