April 22 2015
In 1976 Herb Boyer, a University of California, San Francisco professor, and Robert Swanson, an unemployed venture capitalist, founded Genentech. The…
June 17 2015
A wise and pithy client once told me that if I wanted to get her business, I should identify a problem that was so irritating that she would be…
June 24 2015
Intellectual property finds itself in a precarious position when described as an asset class. Whatever truth was living in that classification has…
February 18 2015
Globally, around 120,000 businesses fail every day. The failure rate by country and by industry varies greatly, but a rule of thumb in the United…
July 15 2015
Henry Ford once famously said, "If I'd have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me 'A faster horse.'" This philosophy was a…
January 13 2016
In a December 31 2015 article I analysed why the current responses of non-practising entities (NPEs) to the failure of their core strategy were…
December 9 2015
All original art is unique. By definition, everything original that was ever painted, sculpted, written or sung is the result of the inspiration and…
November 18 2015
Valeant is an aggregator of drugs run by a former McKinsey consultant and backed by hedge funds. In this respect, it is not your typical…
September 16 2015
Over the past decade, as demand for photographic film plummeted, Eastman Kodak Co went bankrupt, sold its intellectual property in a fire sale and is…
September 9 2015
PayPal founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel recently described the two competing economic paradigms for growth. These are: horizontal growth…