RIVER INSIGHTS

Fingers crossed for Irma...
http://www.aei.org/publication/the-vital-role-of-tech-and-information-in-responding-to-hurricane-harvey/

The vital role of tech and information in responding to Hurricane Harvey - AEI Natural disasters stress every part of human society, but technology and information have played a vital role in assisting the response to Hurricane Harvey.

The importance of having "Innovation Leaders"

http://fortune.com/2016/04/04/the-leadership-quality-that-truly-separates-disneys-bob-iger-from-his-peers/

The leadership secret that separates Disney from its competitors Disney CEO Bob Iger is a true innovation leader. He places faith in his creative directors and allows them to propose original ideas.

Marc Andreessen: "Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure." Why? In a great market -- a market with lots of real potential customers -- the market pulls product out of the startup. Conversely, in a terrible market, you can have the best product in the world and an absolutely killer team, and it doesn't matter -- you're going to fail.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070701074943/http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/06/the-pmarca-gu-2.html

blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters Marc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur, Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Opsware, Ning

Would't I like to be this conventionally wise...
FORTUNE -- Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report is a little like Cokie Roberts's Monday morning appearances on NPR -- a litany of points of unsurprising conventional wisdom.
That doesn't make it valueless: Like Roberts's weekly reports, Meeker's annual presentations put a lot of disparate information in context and offer a guide to what is, well, the conventional wisdom: Beltway wisdom in Roberts's case, Silicon Valley wisdom in Meeker's. Meeker is one up on Roberts in this respect: She offers a lot of data largely generated in-house at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, where the Internet analyst is a partner. Her report, presented Wednesday at the AllThingsD conference, was, as always, accompanied by an insane number of slides.
http://www.kpcb.com/insights/2013-internet-trends

2013 Internet Trends — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers Partnering with great entrepreneurs to build the next big thing.

"Over the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies called the lean startup has begun to replace old regimen: Instead of executing business plans, operating in stealth mode and releasing fully functional prototypes, young ventures are testing hypotheses, gathering early and frequent customer feedback and showing minimum viable products to prospects. This new process recognizes that searching for a business model (which is the primary task facing a startup) is entirely different from executing against that model (which is what established firms do)
https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25903&i=25905&cs=f85785d3580feb87e2bce1535af10c2f

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25903&i=25905&cs=f85785d3580feb87e2bce