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The Innovation Blind Spot: Why We Back the Wrong Ideas--and What to Do About It

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Table of Contents:
Foreword Introduction   PART I: THE INNOVATION BLIND SPOT Chapter 1: What Happened to the American Dream? Chapter 2: Chasing Whales and Unicorns: Why the Venture Capital Process Causes Us to Miss Out on Most Ideas Chapter 3: People and Place: It’s Who You Know Chapter 4: The Two-Pocket Mentality: How Short-Term Thinking Sets Us Up for Long-Term Failure   PART II: THE EMERGING MOVEMENT: ILLUMINATING THE BLIND SPOTS Chapter 5: Changing the Process: Why Entrepreneurs Are Better Judges of New Ideas Than Expert Investors Chapter 6: Building the Pipeline Chapter 7: One-Pocket Thinking: Why Do We Know What Things Cost but Not What They’re Worth?   PART III: SOMEDAY IS TODAY: HOW TO OVERCOME INNOVATION BLIND SPOTS Chapter 8: How Investors Can Find Ideas Where No One Else Is Looking Chapter 9: How Do I Become a One-Pocket Investor? Chapter 10: How Do I Illuminate Blind Spots in a Big Company? Chapter 11: How Government Can Play a Role in Closing Innovation Blind Spots Chapter 12: What Do I Do If I’ve Got the Next Great Idea?   PART IV: TOPOPHILIA Chapter 13:  “We Are the They”: Building an Ecosystem Chapter 14: What Can Happen to the American Dream?   Acknowledgements About the Author Notes Index

About the Author :
Ross Baird is an entrepreneur and investor who is best known for finding, developing, and investing in entrepreneurs in places and industries where most people aren't looking. He founded Village Capital in 2009 and has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs in over fifty countries since then. He has visited over a hundred cities worldwide by train, plane, and bus in an effort to find new entrepreneurs and help people supporting them, and he and Village Capital have partnered with over twenty Fortune 500 companies to help large institutions uncover new innovations. Before joining Village Capital, Ross worked for a venture capital firm and was on the founding team of four different startups.  Ross and his work have been featured by more than fifty media outlets including the New York Times, Bloomberg Business Week, Inc., and FastCompany. He has also lectured in entrepreneurship at the University of Virginia since 2012. He has a MPhil from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a BA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Truman Scholar and a Jefferson Scholar.

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“A pioneering fusion of venture capital and crowd intelligence.” —Matt Bishop, editor for the Economist and author of Philanthrocapitalism “Baird’s motivation for writing the book comes from an insider’s knowledge that the system isn’t allocating resources to the best and the brightest, just to the best connected and most visible.” —Fast Company “Every entrepreneur with a great idea should have a fundamental right to start a business. But today, far too many barriers in society prevent the best people from competing. In this book, Baird outlines compelling strategies to find the best innovations—no matter where they are.” —Wendy Guillies, president and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation “In this time of seismic shifts, our businesses, our governments, and our communities need to work together for our society to succeed—and we need new ideas to get there. Baird identifies the outliers that no one’s betting on and compellingly outlines how we can bring them into the mainstream.” —Governor Deval L. Patrick, managing director, Bain Capital Double Impact “Every single city and community has the power to change the world. But to realize that power, we have to find the ideas and entrepreneurs that people aren’t paying attention to. In The Innovation Blind Spot, Baird shows us how to do just that.” —Brad Feld, cofounder, Foundry Group


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  • ISBN-13: 9781944648619
  • Publisher: Benbella Books
  • Publisher Imprint: BenBella Books
  • Height: 217 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 369 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1944648615
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Why We Back the Wrong Ideas--and What to Do About It
  • Width: 146 mm


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