June 2012
16 posts
jramphis asked: Why aren't there more Phds granted in Puerto Rico? How much R&D spend would be required to create a market for an R&D support services market?
WatchThe wonderful folks are @founderly caught up with the Founder of the Founder Institute, @adeoressi, to get underneath the motivations and vision of the Institute. It’s big.
May 2012
8 posts
Seeing Past So-Called Reality
As I have continued to tour my country, preaching the gospel of entrepreneurship and the Founder Institute’s role in it, I keep seeing how our senses can be our own worst enemies:
You work at a company, and are wondering whether you are willing to take the “risk” of taking the “plunge” into founding a startup. Guess what: it is a real question whether startups are...
The Network Effects of Twitter's Patent Hack
Through its Innovators’ Patent Agreement, Twitter has effectively licensed its patents to every company on the planet with a single condition: that they don’t themselves assert their patent rights by initiating litigation. What are the network effects of having a large numbers adopt the IPA? The result is that initiating a patent lawsuit would suddenly de-license a corporation from a...
