What does innovation mean to you? What does it mean to be an innovative company, to create new ideas and realize them in the real world? According to Wikipedia, “innovation” means a “new idea, creative thoughts, new imaginations in the form of device or method”. Innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements or existing market needs. Such corporate innovation takes place by creating more-effective products, processes, services,…
Like many cryptocurrency enthusiasts, I am a strong supporter of open source projects and decentralized systems. I quickly became enamored with the idea of distributed systems, fair voting, and true transparency. But, why does it matter? Long-standing is the debate between open source and closed-source, decentralized and centralized. Over the last several decades, we have learned a great deal from the triumphs (or lack thereof) in innovation, and I think it’s time we took…
Twenty teams. Four finalists. One winner. $100K Prize. After a month-long journey, passing through several stages, Kambria is both humbled and proud (that’s an oxymoron, but it’s true!) to be named the winner of the Blockchain Stars start-up competition. The competition, hosted by BTC TV, consisted of three elimination rounds. In order to continue in the competition and avoid elimination, each team needed to pitch their project and be selected by a strategic advisor in the first two…
