
The Most Innovative Companies of 2021 According to BCG
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla are considered the five most innovative companies, according to BCG’s analysis of the 50 most innovative companies of 2021. Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Mitsubishi, and Moderna join the top 50 most innovative companies for the first time this year. The fastest movers include Toyota, who jumped from 41st to […]

Purchases: Of Teenagers and Teslas
My half brother, a smart teenager who is already taller than me and usually emerges victorious when competing on the foosball table, happens to be an aspiring engineer who can also hold his own as a researcher and writer (he’s been interning with us for the past two weeks – check MetalMiner on Monday for […]
Why I’d Go Big. And Why You Should Ignore Me, and Most of the Others That Tell You That.
Everything on the web, and in SaaS, these days is about going big. Larry Page at Google I/O wants Google to start doing brave new things that build billion dollar markets. Peter Thiel wants the best of us to skip college and go straight to building the next Pallantir and PayPal, just bigger. Elon Musk […]

Forget the Poor, Build it for the 1%
There are some very interesting startups that are taking the technology to the masses and solving problems for the bottom of the pyramid. The mobile phone has allowed innovations like mCommerce to reach banking and healthcare where not earlier possibl…