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65) Dropbox Votebox
危 wēi danger I’ve written about Dropbox before here. The file storing, sharing and syncing service is great, not least because of its simplicity. In fact, I often reference it as an example of a...
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68) Quora – innovation from recombination
危 wēi danger Adam D’Angelo quit his position as CTO of Facebook to create Quora, an online knowledge market that aggregates questions and answers on various topics and allows users to collaborate on...
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38) Apple – iPad
危 wēi danger Apple has built a strong reputation for launching products and services that help consumers meet their existing needs more effectively, for example storing and listening to music on the...
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46) Netflix (again!)
危 wēi danger As per my previous post on the subject Netflix has done an incredible job of disrupting the video rental incumbents, particularly Blockbuster. Part of its success was moving away from...
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51) Clover Food Lab
危 wēi danger Starting any business is scary. Starting any restaurant business is very scary. It’s expensive to set up, there’s legislative hoops to jump through, location and menu are critical (and...
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54) Hotel Chocolat
危 wēi danger Hotel Chocolat, the upmarket confectioner, was founded by Angus Thirlwell and Peter Harris in 1993. I’ve always been a fan – not least because the company has consistently turned its...
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57) Google Image Labeler
危 wēi danger Google owes much of its success to its phenomenal search algorithm, invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. Broadly,...
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Why I think OpenIDEO is important
This is a break from my usual blog post format but today is a special day: we’re launching OpenIDEO – a platform designed to bring people together to solve problems for social good. Here’s a quick...
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62) diaspora* and Kickstarter
危 wēi danger Four students at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences listened to a lecture on cloud computing and privacy and began to worry about relinquishing ownership of...
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64) The 4-Hour Workweek – smoke test in the physical world
危 wēi danger Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational activist, and entrepreneur wrote a semi-autobiographical self-help book in 2007 that was well received by friends and family. Ferriss’...
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