Max Marmer

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 [...]

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 [...]

One of the primary stitches running across my life cloak: The primary engine driving economic growth is innovation. And we are in the midst of transitioning to a new innovation landscape as corporations are dying and the startup ecosystem matures. The innovation landscape is the overlapping theme for most of what I’m thinking about and [...]

Original post can be found here. There are two types of organizations that are driving a majority of our economic growth: the startup and the large corporation. On one hand, we have startups, which are where the innovation is happening and on the other hand, we have corporations, which have the advantages of scale and [...]

On Thursday I attended Crowdsourcing for Social Good a great panel, with great attendees who I witnessed cook up some great things the mixer time surrounding the panel. Here I’ve written up one cautionary note about crowdsourcing for people who are engaged in their work, and a few notes from the evening. I don’t think that [...]

I recently followed a link to this article on Wired profiling the first scientific discovery made by a machine with no human intervention. This doesn’t signal the end of the role human scientists. Instead it puts increasing upward pressure on scientists developing their creative faculties. And this trend is not prevalent just in science. Everything [...]

Most people are going to disagree with me here, but I find it sad that Seth Berger checked out after finishing with AND1.  I think having kids was the culprit for the decrease in desire, and this case isn’t the exception. “Knowledge@Wharton: Clearly you have experienced a lot of success in a very competitive industry. [...]

I attended the San Francisco Supernova Mixer Tuesday night, where John Hagel and John Seely Brown from Deloitte’s Center for the Edge presented their research on the Big Shift– “a major new effort to track the real impacts of what we call the Network Age. ” My copious notes on their talk are posted here. [...]

From Eventbrite: We’re delighted to launch our first 2009 Supernova Mixer event at Wharton Ι SF Campus on Tuesday, August 11, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Please join us for a lively conversation with Deloitte’s John Hagel and John Seely Brown (Center for the Edge) on The Shift Index — a major new effort to track the [...]

I’ve written about sports frequently because I think the lessons are incredibly transferable. Athletics are extremely competitive with a long history of results-oriented focus. It’s a huge business, with a lot of attention, money and science aimed at maximizing results. While transferring lessons from a game can be dangerous, because any game is an over simplification [...]