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.

Freelancer Boot Camp – March 12th: Throughout your career you’ve worked hard to become known as a recognized expert in you field. The people around you know the quality of work that you do, your ability to meet deadlines, and the style and flair that sets you apart from the rest. But [...]

On Wednesday, November 10th the DaVinci Institute will be hosting a very visionary event at Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, Colorado. In fact, it will be all about visionaries because that’s who’s coming – some of the country’s most notable visionaries.

During the two-day Summit, eighteen corporate managers of internationally known companies will share lessons from the real world of innovation. The agenda includes one keynote, one plenary, two powerful panels, twelve breakout sessions, and lots of opportunities for informal conversations and capturing lessons via the “Lessons Project.”
Speakers and their topics include the following:

For R. Buckminster Fuller, getting innovation to market was simply a waiting game. “I just invent, then wait around until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.”
However, in today’s extreme business environment, few can afford to wait. What innovators and innovating companies need is a process to turn big new ideas into revenue-producing [...]

Most startup businesses have tons of questions about working with VCs to help launch their business. Here is the perfect opportunity for you to speak with a veteran VC on Monday, July 26th, and find out if this is a good path for you to go down.
Speaker: David Wolf is the founding General [...]

Former US Senator Hank Brown has recently taken over as the CEO and President of the Daniels Fund, Colorado’s largest private foundation. On July 12th Hank has agreed to talk about the “Future of Philanthropy” at the DaVinci Institute’s Night with a Futurist.

All too often, we accept the future of the mind as a singular vision painted for us by others. But here in Denver, you have the opportunity to view the “Mona Lisa” of brain models.