Fwd: 5 E-Commerce Trends to Watch — and 1 You Can Ignore

Here are some ideas to share regrding apps.  For the apps minded.  Read more to stimulate our New Ideas generation.

From: Intuit Small Business Blog <blog@intuit.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Subject: 5 E-Commerce Trends to Watch — and 1 You Can Ignore

	Daily Update 5 E-Commerce Trends to Watch — and 1 You Can Ignore Online retail sales topped $200 billion in 2011, and most industry forecasts point higher. Market-watcher Forrester Research, for one, predicts that e-commerce will account for 9 percent of overall retail sales … Intuit's MoneyDue App Turns Your Calendar into a Payment Tool Billing and keeping track of outstanding invoices can be a struggle for many sole proprietors, particularly freelance creatives and other contractors who bill various clients on an hourly basis. "Many … How Would You Take Your Business Mobile? Submit Your Idea for a Chance to Win $10,000! Maybe you're already a mobile business. Or maybe you're just starting to think about going mobile. In either case, tell us your idea about how taking credit card payments on-the-go … Stay on Schedule with These 7 Mobile Calendar Apps Some professionals still swear by paper organizers, but lately more of us are turning to smartphones to serve as digital personal assistants — in which case, a calendar app is … In the Trenches: Picking Up the Pace As you know, I hired my first employee a couple of months ago. He's been a quick study in how to handle certain tasks, and now it's time to move … How Musicians Are Using Crowdfunding to Ditch Record Labels Until recently, working with a record label was a necessary evil for most musicians. Few artists had the financial resources to record an album in a studio, market and distribute … Shop Intuit: Website Services QuickBooks Payroll GoPayment Point of Sale Get Help: Support Community

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SPREADING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL REVOLUTION

Paul Yock on Invention and being Contrary of Ecorner Stanford University Videoshare on Invention and Being Contrary

"Innovate or DIE"

The videoshare is about innovation and invention on Medical Technology. Paul Yock teaches technnology at Stanford U.




Thank you Prof Yock. Thank you Ecorner. Thank you Stanford. Thank you Kauffman Foundation (Kauffman is dedicated to the development of entrepreneurship and its revolution)










"New ideas create more and better new products and services; create more wealth."

New Ideas Must Impact Society and Economy

                                                                         

According to Peter Drucker, innovation to prosper must impact both society and economy.  Inventors and creators (creative people) often mistake that new ideas, hi tech, inventions are enough.  This is the trap that most inventors fall into and then complain about lack of government support, lack of patriotism by countrymen, etc. This is the gap to be filled in by techno-entrepreneurship.  The invention/creation must satisfy the wants and need of the customer.  The customer is the center of the creation/universe;  it is not the invention creation.

I have been together with a group of businessman, to an agricultural school in Region 3 that is largely populated by PhDs and engaged in high level agri tech research.  And yet much of their discovery and research results are within their campus wanting to be used by the farmers.

I have volunteered work on how to commercialize the inventions and that was about it-talk, a first wave of emails and that was it.

I want to recall Lee Beng's definition of entrepreneurship (from Timmons) "It is about doing something, not merely analyzing, discussing, and talking..."

"Innovation is creating value from existing resources." "Entrepreneurship is creating something from practically nothing"