Photobucket Founders Alex Welch and Darren Crystal
On May 21st the DaVinci Institute will host the now infamous dual of Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, the two founders of Photobucket, who will tell the story of what it took for them to launch what is now the World’s number one photo site on the Internet. […]

On may 5th Dave Elchoness will take a look at the major information and technological revolution that lies ahead
In a wide ranging keynote address at the 2007 Influence Forum, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey made the bold statement that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce.
Twomey sited several examples of the virtual […]

You are securely belted into the driver’s seat of your new startup and you are about to smash down on the gas pedal to get it launched. You have gone through the steps all startup leaders take in those first few months, and then you realize that there is no road ahead. You smile as […]

Does your message work? You only have 10 seconds to connect before a person tunes you out. That’s the bad news. The good news is that improving the first 10 seconds allows for a HUGE leap in communications.
On Saturday, March 1st, the DaVinci Institute will be hosting […]

On Saturday, January 26th the DaVinci institute will be playing host to an Elance Boot Camp starting at 8:30 am at DeVry University in Westminster, Colorado. The event will focus on teaching people how to match talented professionals from around the world
with the needs of your business - at the click of a button

The upcoming Angel Capital Summit on November 13th is a collaboration of Colorado’s leading professional organizations that serve entrepreneurs and early-stage investors. Instead of simply presenting pitch after pitch, this collaboration makes possible an entirely new approach to helping entrepreneurs and investors find each other.

In practice, business owners and salespeople often have monthly goals that they need to meet and as a result feel enormous amounts of pressure to make things happen. This is a dangerous practice because it can seriously damage personal & professional relationships and destroy the reputation of an individual company.

Just a quick reminder about tomorrow’s "Creating Website Content Boot Camp" for people in the Denver area.  Two powerful demonstrations, five topic experts.

The DaVinci Institute is offering a special discount to readers of the Impact Lab for Tuesday’s Colorado Inventor Showcase in Denver.

"Feeder Businesses" are small, sometimes tiny, new businesses and services that feed off online mega-sites like eBay, Google, Match.com, Amazon, and MySpace. They often create a win-win situation, making it easier for consumers and businesses to use a key service that, thanks to its popularity, reach and depth, has become so sophisticated that getting the […]

USA today recently reported that people are changing jobs an average of nine times before the age of 32. Nine times! The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports average tenure on a job of 4.6 years. Futurists predict the average to drop to 3.8, maybe even 3.5 years, by 2010. Whether you see this is as […]

You have the rare opportunity on May 16th to meet USPTO Patent Commissioner John Doll and hear his thoughts on the future of the US Patent and Trademark Office. Seats are still available. Here are some of the key trends affecting the USPTO and the American Inventor:

On May 16th the DaVinci Institute will play host to USPTO Commissioner John Doll at the Phipps Mansion, the site of the former G8 Summit.  Commissioner Doll’s talk will be on the "Future of the US Patent & Trademark Office".

On March 24th, futurist Thomas Frey will be presenting a talk on "Driving Forces for 2006" at the upcoming Movers & Shakers Breakfast at Phipps Mansion in Denver, Colorado.

Scott Degraffenreid, has been working successfully with a wide range of clients for more than a dozen years.  His track record in employee retention in over 100 successive engagements is having reduced voluntary employee turnover by at least 50% with no recourse to compensation or other recurring costs.   Productivity gains routinely exceed 100%.

Upcoming Event: What is the Participation Age? We are in a
transition from the Information Age to the Participation Age. In the
Information Age, information itself was at the center of the stage and
its creation and control was of paramount importance in technology.

The business world is a rough playground.  The people you most depend on end up working against you.  Your best layed plans self-destruct right before your eyes.  You find yourself constantly working outside of your comfort zone, your stomach is constantly churning, and at the end of a tough day, you pace the hallways too stressed to sleep.  You […]

DaVinci Institute: For the Colorado Inventor Showcase, our exhibit spaces are now completely sold out, and we have an exciting assortment of creative companies exhibiting products at the event. Products on display will include the self-tuning guitar, next-generation pedicabs, tactile sound units, auto-powered bicycle wheels, solar flowers, fuel cells, pistol-mounted cameras, dental optical […]

Embryonic stem-cell research advocates in Florida have drafted a ballot initiative that would put $200 million toward the science over the next 10 years, citing frustration with lack of interest in the promising field among federal and state agencies.

Rick Wilking left New Orleans a few days ago, after spending almost a week documenting the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He came to New York to document the 9/11 anniversary and to cover the UN World Summit. While the photographs he took in New Orleans are more powerful images, it is a silly note from […]

Join us at the DaVinci Institute as we hear from five of the country’s leading branding experts as they take us on an inside look at the powerful new world of branding.

Edison’s early movie projector, Tesla’s alternating ­current, Ferris’s first massive steel wheel - we’ve come a long way from the scientific and technological marvels that drew huge crowds to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Suppose it is the future–maybe a thousand years from now. There is no static cling, diapers change themselves, and everyone who is anyone summers on Mars.

What would you do when you do everything right…and it all goes wrong?
So, when was the last time you met a guy who was sued for $1.4 Billion? Well, Steve Baker is that guy and he has written his story about living the American dream.

Want to podcast your own “station” or listen to the new medium’s pioneers? Here’s a guide to the Net’s exploding choices.