Innovation can be learned

Most people think of innovation as a “Eureka!” moment – or something that comes from hours upon hours of tinkering. But Josh Makower, CEO of ExploraMed, argues that innovation is a skill that can be taught in this Entrepreneur Thought Leader lecture given at Stanford University. By studying what propels innovation, he says, people can develop their own skills and break new ground

B2B, medical tech poise investment opportunity for VCs

(Editor’s note: Terry Opdendyk is the founder of ONSET Ventures. He submitted this look at the state of the VC market to VentureBeat.) Twenty-six years ago, we founded ONSET Ventures during one of the worst economic periods since the Great Depression. The firm’s strategy was to proactively handcraft startup investments that leveraged the rare, simultaneous occurrence of two economic events – sudden market transformations and hard economic times.

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