Three Great References

Guy Kawasaki:  “Entrepreneur is not a job title.  It is the state of mind of people who want to alter the future”  (The Art of the Start, 2004)

Tim Brown:  “Edison wasn’t a narrowly specialized scientist but a broad generalist with a shrewd business sense.  In his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory he surrounded himself with Gifted tinkerers, improvisers, and experimenters” (Design Thinking, Harvard Business Review, June 2008).

Henkel & Reitzig:  “Companies must begin cooperating with their competitors early in the R&D process.  As noted, early-stage research tends to be highly secretive, whereas a patent-protected idea often becomes a trading asset.  Intuitively, this makes sense, since disclosing knowledge about unprotected ideas can make a firm’s R&D department very vulnerable.  This approach has become outdated” (Patent Sharks, Harvard Business Review, June 2008).

What’s the common thread?  ThreePercenters are entrepreneurial generalists with a shrewd technical and business sense.  We aim to change the future.  And if we want to be successful in today’s world, we need to work together across company lines.

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