Appreciation for innovation?

[sandykins]

I came across this interesting article (Lessons from the Browser War) that discusses a study by a student Pai-Ling Yin, at Harvard Business School. I put this in my blog mainly for those who might not come across this on sites like slashdot etc where I found this :)

Some interesting points of how diffusion mechanisms of technology into the market

Comments

Re: What if clinching the hi-seat is not the aim of a project?

[sandykins]

Yes, you have a good point when we refer to open src sw like FF.

But I was amused (in a cynical sense) to think that those who banked on their creativity to earn a living, have a lot of other aspects to learn as well :)

This article made me think on a higher abstract level of importance of marketing and sales strategy! Very very interesting!

Re: What if clinching the hi-seat is not the aim of a project?

[poovanna]

Guess what stage took the most effort? It was not the idea behind the startup, but the financial projections :-)
Amen to that. I've seen many techies look at this aspect with disdain. It's very hard work actually.

Re: What if clinching the hi-seat is not the aim of a project?

[poovanna]

Excellent! I woulda loved to take that course! Here I audited a few classes of computational finance, but I couldn't keep up due to lack of time.

Do you have some online resources that I could check out?

I remember a few years ago, a company was born from one of your incubation labs - Purpleace.com. Do you know how it's doing? One of it's co-founders, Brojo Pillai was my senior in school.

Re: What if clinching the hi-seat is not the aim of a project?

[poovanna]

Computational Finance? Is that the same as what we're discussing?
It's somewhat similar as it details techniques on estimating the future value of a company, but it's more focussed toward evaluation of stocks, shares etc.,

It doesn't detail the VC process.