Failure - the Podcast
A podcast about innovation and failure, mostly in business. Visit us at https://innovationblab.com.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 89
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
The Entrepreneur Inventor
Our guest, John Daniels, is a basement tinkerer who is breaking the mold in the manner of the best of them. The Thomas Edisons, the Alexander Graham Bells, the Samuel Colts: inventors who were succ…
Snow Skiing is like Starting a Business? Roger that!
There is no shortage of similes, analogies and what-nots equating running a business with snow skiing. Populist chef and restaurateur Guy Fieri, for example, says that in his business, like in skiin…
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018
Some view the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas every January, as a First World extravagance. Others see it as a critical driver of the world economy. Either way, attending the sh…
Tractor Pulls and Entrepreneurship
Winter in Vermont. A gentleman farmer. A stuck tractor. Who would have thought you could pull a lesson about entrepreneurship from this? Join your hosts in a New Year’s Eve story that’s sure to s…
Productive Liaisons — Bringing Together Industry and Academia
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the home of not just great research but, also, of great industry/university collaborations. That’s not happenstance. It is the result of efforts of…
When the Investment Banker Comes Calling
The start-up CEO might think she’s on the verge of striking it rich, when the investment bankers come calling. That’s not necessarily so. First, there is the risk that potential buyers just aren’t …
Investing. It’s a numbers game.
A lot has been written about how the batting philosophy of the baseball greats applies to investing. Much of that centers around the notion that, whether you are picking promising pitches, stocks or…
Polaroid. The long, slow demise of a tech giant.
Polaroid was the Apple (Computer) of its day. Founded by Edwin Land in the 1940’s, his genius propelled Polaroid to the height of the instant camera craze of the 1970’s. Alas, change was coming. T…
AirPrint Networks, felled by the Great Recession?
In early 2000, AirPrint Networks set out to create a mobile printer market. Backed by a supportive board of directors and funded by willing investors, AirPrint converted abandoned technology from th…