Problem with sound preceded Mavericks

This article, "The Shape of Math to Come",talks about applying topology to large data sets. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131004-the-mathema... Might stimulate your thinking.

http://roberthackerbooks.com/ Book develops my thinking on a business model for high growth companies. Concepts are illustrated in part by my experience building a billion dollar company.

Now considering a solution that involves a class of both undergrads and Masters level students. Will see if the bureaucrats will allow that.

Will not engage in the debate on teach/born entrepreneurs.

I would have quoted Piaget and Papert on learning.

The point on willingness to change is in fact the real issue. Trying to determine if the motivations are correctly assessed.

I think you need to make better use of the screen real estate. Having the feature examples below the break (Chrome, Mac) is not very effective. This app is in a crowded space (market) and I would move what you think is the distinctive features to the top and make them eye catching. Maybe thinking in vertical stripes with product, validation and features each having a column would be more impactful.

My eye goes to the gmail logo which I do not think is the message you want to communicate first.

I think you underestimate the innovation in education considering Kahn Academy, the UN, MIT courseware online, etc. The innovation is in content and a more student-centric approach to learning.

The old model of a school building and a teacher "push the content" has changed little since 1800 despite the advances in technology. Just relax the assumption that there has to be a physical school and the innovation opportunities become apparent. More thoughts at http://sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com/sophisticated_financ...

This article is superb in response to the question and also to helping non-business people understand how their disciplines apply to business/business decisionmaking

This essay by CW Hamming may be of interest. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.htm... Also, the work of James Austin, professor at Harvard Medical School on successful research. Marvin Minsky, legendary MIT professor, is also interested in the same subject but I don't have a reference. The "Random Walks of George Polya" is also related to the subject. Stanford math professor who specialized in techniques to solve advanced math problems.

This subject would perhaps make a great forum or separate website.

1. Don't buy Nokia; waste of money and no help in sorting out a mobile strategy 2. Port CE to ARM as soon as possible before the entire tablet/phone market is lost 3. Focus on the enterprise market where you potentially contribute value added and move out of consumer software apps which will all be free, web-based in five years 4. Focus all software development on smaller code that assumes no hard drive and 4GB or less of flash memory in the device; really understand products like Dropbox as a means to see a software strategy going forward 5. Abandon the strategy where all the software (Office, IE, etc) only runs on Windows