Archive for May, 2010

The Long Tail of Innovation in an Information Economy

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Once an innovation ecosystem has successfully created the structure to consistently tackle the big billion dollar opportunities, the system possesses the energy to begin evolving greater complexity, and squeezing out more efficiency. This efficiency will be realized by evolving the ecosystem to support the long tail of opportunities, which is exactly what the startup ecosystem [...]

Lean Education and Learning

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

I haven’t been writing much lately. Building my public voice hasn’t been a priority. But I thought I’d share this email I wrote, (lightly edited). The ideas in this post strongly reference the lean startup theory. If you don’t know much about that, this post might be a bit confusing. …This also inspired me to [...]

Why Maximizing the Efficiency of the Startup Ecosystem Is Essential for Society’s Transition to an Information Economy

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

This post is a revision of http://maxmarmer.com/2010/02/maximizing-startup-ecosystem-efficiency/ written for emergent fool. Right now the tech industry is the most innovative industry on the planet. Its success is in large part due to it being the first information age innovation ecosystem, which has implications for the future of the world, as we transition to an information [...]

Maximizing the Efficiency of the Startup Ecosystem

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

This post is a revision of http://maxmarmer.com/2010/02/maximizing-startup-ecosystem-efficiency/ written for emergent fool. Over the last 3 decades the technology entrepreneurship sector has been the primary sector driving economic growth. The sector initiated the information economy and has given life to thousands of innovative companies, four of which are ten of the biggest companies in the United [...]

Blogging on Emergent Fool

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

I’m now a contributor to Emergent Fool, a blog on complex adaptive systems. My first two posts on EF are a revision of the startup ecosystem post I wrote a few months ago. I’ll share the revisions back here as well.