Comments on: Obama to Silicon Valley: A Side of Innovation Please? http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/ Sat, 18 May 2013 10:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mflint http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/#comment-597658 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:27:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=299659#comment-597658 Remembering of-course, that Russia is making very fast plans to have it’s own Silicon Valley.
Good old fear still works as a motivator.

]]> By: Nancy Munro http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/#comment-597428 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:35:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=299659#comment-597428 With the recent attention Obama has been giving to Silicon Valley and innovation, I found an interesting article from a Forbes columnist, Adam Hartung who posts the question “Would you Hire Steve Jobs” http://bit.ly/h27bfw where he states that the current global economy rewards leaders who are more innovative like Jobs but when you look at who is filling the seats of most CEO’s it’s the safer less innovative candidate. He even comments on what a poor choice Obama made w/ assigning Immelt to his recent position and not fully understanding what it truly means to be innovative.

]]> By: Quickthink » Blog Archive » There’s That Word Again - Incubator http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/#comment-597189 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:18:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=299659#comment-597189 [...]  Here is the link. Next you might imagine the President inviting YCombinator staff to the White House. Or kicking back and watching Steve Johnson’s TED video. [...]

]]> By: dave http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/#comment-595941 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:06:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=299659#comment-595941 hmm, did they happen to discuss the basic idea that these companies represent a tiny fraction of the entire job market and in fact employ a great number of non-domestic talent to “innovate”? (i see ellison and others with enormous overseas development operations)

]]> By: Tim http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/#comment-595902 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:14:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=299659#comment-595902 This president knows everything there is to know about failure as he’s the poster child for it.

]]> By: Kevin Walsh http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/#comment-595858 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:53:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=299659#comment-595858 The president may not like what he heard. Innovation works best when failure is understood to be part of the equation. For every Google, Apple, Facebook, etc., there are dozens of failures. It’s a process of natural selection—finding out what works sometimes requires finding out what doesn’t work first.

The problem with Washington, et al, is that they presuppose they can pick winners and are reluctant to admit that some of their investments are fundamentally bad ideas. This reluctance compels them to prop up failures, thereby preventing the creative destruction that is a natural byproduct of venture-backed innovation.

The real ingredients to a self-reinforcing innovative ecosystem, such as what was once common in Silicon Valley and a few other innovative pockets are (a) risk capital, (b) risk takers, (c) an absence of government intrusion.

]]> By: Steve Jobs på middag med Barack Obama | MaxiMac http://gigaom.com/2011/02/18/obama-to-silicon-valley-can-i-get-a-side-of-innovation-please/#comment-595801 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:21:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=299659#comment-595801 [...] med flera toppfigurer från Silicon Valley, träffade Barack Obama hemma hos John Doerr för att diskutera [...]

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