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Necessity forces companies to look for outside solutions, ideas
For innovators working to solve problems and shape new products within big companies, 2009 was not a wonderful year.
Top five start-ups, venture capital firms
Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation. It’s December, and that means journalists crank out “year-in-review’’ lists. Here are two “top five’’ lists from the Innovation Economy blog, one of which looks ahead and one of which looks back. The first is my take on start-ups worth watching in 2010, and the second is ...
Start-ups aim to help you learn a language without breaking the bank
Along with losing 20 pounds, learning to parlare Italiano or sprechen Deutsch is apparently high on the list of New Year’s resolutions for many people.
Heavier meaning to Tweets with WiFi scale
Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visitwww.boston.com/innovation. The bathroom scale tells all: If you believe that most messages posted on Twitter verge on over-sharing, you can stop reading here.
‘Cash for Caulkers’
On a chilly Tuesday morning last week, Steve Garwood was pointing an orange hand-held infrared camera at the walls of Ceci Mendez’s bedroom, showing her where the 50-year-old home was letting in cold air from the outside. In Mendez’s basement, Shawn Boilard was cutting sections of foam insulation to be fitted around the pipes connected to Mendez’s furnace.
Innovation Economy: Great expectation for cutting-edge tech firms
Highlights from Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy blog. For the full blog, visit www.boston.com/innovation . ■Davos-bound. Each year the World Economic Forum selects a small group of companies as “Technology Pioneers,’’ and there are usually a few local firms in the bunch.
To ensure prompt replies, build a better e-mail
Unlike me, you may always get an instant response when you fire off an e-mail. The very notion of having to follow up on an important request with a second e-mail, and a third, and then a phone call may be utterly unfamiliar to you.
Mypunchbowl.com trying to crash Web party
Ask someone who’s throwing a holiday party which website they intend to use to send invitations. You’re likely to get one of two answers: Facebook (if the party planner is, say, 25 or younger) and Evite (for the older demographic). Framingham entrepreneur Matt Douglas, founder of MyPunchbowl.com, hopes his two-year-old website can somehow elbow its way in between those two behemoths.
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Taking a brief breather...
I'm planning to take a short break from this blog over the holidays (and perhaps from tweeting, too) to recharge. If you're here, though, and...
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