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Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age:...
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You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Anyone can invent - a parent wrestling with a baby sling ...a coach frustrated with slick-soled running shoes ...an office worker determined to keep the computer cords untangled. Inventing is simply finding clever solutions to everyday challenges. Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown has turned common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products. She shares the tricks of her trade...
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Despite the tens of billions spent each year in international aid, some of the most promising and exciting social innovations and businesses have come about by chance. Many of the people behind them did not consciously set out to solve anything, but they did. Welcome to the world of the reluctant innovator.
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Have you in your adult life, looked at the mirror and thought, "Ah, I wonder if by now I could have come further ahead in my life with more wealth and perhaps some fame to claim!" Well, you're not alone. In this tactical and strategic guide to inventions and innovations, you will discover your Unique Impact Ability - Your Unique Ability To Create Massive Unique Impact through your creativity and problem-solving prowess. The author shares 30 years...
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It's the first night of summer, and fifteen year-old Sara James is sleeping outside on her backyard trampoline with her best friend, Kai. Sara awakens in the middle of the night to a beautiful, starry sky. There's a sudden flash of light, and an angelic woman appears, floating on the night air with her magnificent, sparkling-white wings outstretched. She introduces herself as Anjalie, and invites Sara to join her on a quest. Normally cautious and...
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A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk.
In When the Heavens Went on Sale, Ashlee Vance illuminates our future and unveils the next big technology story of our time: welcome to the Wild West of aerospace engineering and its unprecedented impact on our lives.
With the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Silicon Valley began to realize that...
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Corporate, Academia and Institutional Investors spend five trillion dollars a year globally on innovation, where two third of initiatives fails, this book is about reversing that. We face pressing challenges. Eco-degradation, infectious diseases and new risks brought by the misaligned resources spent on bad innovation that's challenging the human development. The solution lies by leveraging breakthroughs in technologies and sciences, along a paradigm...
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Creativity and innovation are some of the most desirable traits in any profession. As the workforce is increasingly becoming more competitive, learning and adopting great innovators' traits will greatly benefit personal and professional lives. Serial innovators have developed the skills to generate innovative ideas in different sectors. Analysis of their habits, traits, and character reveals a striking pattern that has enabled them to generate great...
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Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence...
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This comprehensive guide from the editors of Popular Science covers everything a new inventor needs to know from starting out to running a start-up.
Contrary to popular opinion, you don't have to be an ace electrician or a coding prodigy to develop your own game-changing invention. All you need is curiosity, a desire to fix a common problem, and the determination to see your ideas become reality. And it won't hurt to have this book handy-a volume...
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You've come up with a great solution to a persistent problem-an invention that will help thousands of people. But what do you have to do to turn it into a reality? Robert Yonover uses his experiences from the world of inventing and promotion to take you through the invention process step-by-step. Learn how to:
• Find the problem you can solve
• Build a show prototype
• Create an attention-grabbing and memorable name
• Find investors
• Safeguard...
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The must-read summary of Andrew Hargadon's book: "How Breakthroughs Happen: the Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate".
This complete summary of the ideas from Andrew Hargadon's book "How Breakthroughs Happen" explains how very few business innovations come from a 'lightbulb moment'. In reality, these breakthroughs are the result of 'technology brokering', where the ideas from one industry are implemented into another. In his book, the author...
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"What does Charles Darwin have in common with Johannes Gutenberg or with Jackson Pollock, Martin Luther, Betty Friedan, Steve Jobs, and DJ Kool Herc? They were the disruptors, upending cultural, technical, spiritual, or scientific paradigms and altering the way we live forever. ...Alan Axelrod presents engaging profiles, accompanied by original line drawings, of 50 visionaries who rewrote the rules. Their innovations range from the printing press...
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Throughout its history, Connecticut frequently led all states in the average number of U. S. patents awarded per person. The list of products invented there is stunning--from the lollipop, cupcake and Frisbee, to the dirigible, helicopter and submarine. The workplace improved with tape measures, portable typewriters, postage meters and elevators. American consumers benefited from sewing machines, diapers, ironing boards, vacuum cleaners, can openers,...
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