The Literary Car Wash
Innovation can happen anywhere – even in a car wash. Jeff and Holly Coplin and Matt Broderick are not the sort you’d expect to be in the car wash business. Matt and Jeff shared a fence growing up and their…
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Rejection Therapy: Prototype Failure
One lonely night not long ago, Jason Comely was where we all end up at some point in our lives: feeling sorry for himself. The deck seemed stacked against him. Nine months earlier, his wife had left him for a…
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Forget Something?
Skiing recently near Lake Tahoe I walked into my Holiday Inn hotel bathroom and found the small plaque behind the soap dish pictured above with the catchy phrase, “Forget Something?” Forgetting comes naturally. We forget our keys, our cell phones,…
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The Ageless Innovator
Barbara Beskind works at IDEO on projects that help the elderly. She’s 91. IDEO has long broken ground on novel ways to inspire radically new products and services. While the results can sometimes seem like magic, the secret is often…
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