photo credit: Lord Jim
Popped down to Internet world last week as I fancied a little unfocused trawl. My expectations were fairly low which were completely met. Discriminating between the various offerings was near on impossible. Hosting companies, SEO etc tend to differentiate on cost, infrastructure and other commodified attributes. Admittedly Internet World is not Under the Radar but still.
Incrementalism seems to be the zeitgeist at the moment. Jeff Nolan has written on Incrementalism and The New New Thing . I was particular struck by “There are few bold “ah-hah” ideas, lot’s of social this or that, and mostly a bunch of companies hoping to draft on the perceived success of a few gorillas.”
Umair Haque has similarly made a plea against creeping incrementalism”There are huge shocks rolling across the global economic landscape. … We are all, make no mistake, dancing on the precipice of economic cataclysm. It is the obligation of radical innovators to create new value by solving these problems ”
The motivation for a lot of entrepreneurs seems to have been derived by Google, Facebook et al astronomical value creation. However I do think there is a renewed focus on social entrepreneurship. These successes will start to motivate individual. To stretch a metaphor to breaking point we are witnessing the move from Thatcher’s children to the social inclusiveness of New Labour !!
