Turning Entrepreneurship Upside Down

Newton Campos, a good friend who lives in São Paulo, Brazil, is one of those rare people who is at home in both the business world and academe. He’s executive vice-director of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Research Center at FGV-SP — and...

How To Handle Rejection

You don’t have to be at the top to be lonely. Pioneers with new ideas know the feeling, too. These thoughts came to mind after reading Patrick Allan’s (@mr_patrickallan) keen observations on a Lifehacker blog. On one post, he discusses “Build Your...

Finished The Canvas, Now What? (Part 2)

C. Todd Lombardo (@iamctodd) is an Innovation Architect for small business software provider Constant Contact [link]. He is also one of our NextSensors [link] and worked on the major NextBrief project that examined the future of television [link]. In the first of a...

Imagine! (Or Else!)

Some people routinely lose the remote control for their entertainment devices. Why not have a Bluetooth-enabled sticker that will track it via your smartphone, even setting off a buzzer or red light just in case it’s super well-hidden? Ah, it would be nice,...

Get The Picture?

If you are into nextsensing, you have to be into entertaining new thinking. This means that you have to be open to challenging ideas, concepts and possibilities — no matter where they come from. Some days, I don’t spot anything that tickles my next sense....