Bryan Schreier, Venture Capitalist and Partner at Sequoia Capital, spoke with our Surf Ranch panel and guests. He addressed how investors value category designers:
Naomi Allen, CEO and Co-Founder of Emilio Health is a seasoned operational leader in healthcare and is a frequent speaker on digital health and early-stage innovation. Being..
Tesla just gave away all its patents – and it’s a genius move. The electric carmaker has been in danger of becoming a pioneering company in a small niche of the automobile market...
Dave Peterson is a co-Founder and Partner at Play Bigger, a consulting firm that coined the term category design and is advising companies on how to create and own new categories..
Recently some of the digerati have bemoaned Facebook’s rise as the end of Silicon Valley. The argument goes that because social media companies don’t make computer chips or cancer..
By their very nature, most tech businesses are solving a problem customers may not they know they have, or developing a solution the customer doesn’t know they need.
The Puerto Escondido Cup was quite a big wave event. According to contest organizer Gary Linden, "It was the best women’s big wave surfing event he’d seen and that many of the..
This category design webinar will walk through the science of category design, the foundational building blocks of how to define and develop a category, and provide many case..
Today, the technology industry is caught in a landslide of hype about “unicorns” — the term adopted by many to describe the rare class of startup that soars in value to $1 billion..
Few people realize that Hallmark also owns diverse brands including Crayola crayons. The privately-held company now has over 27,000 employees and has been one of the largest..
Asking why Google created Alphabet is the wrong question. The right questions to ask are: Why did Google miss social networking? How is it that limo company Carey didn’t see the..
