Sarah Drinkwater

Productizing venture means taking everything that venture capitalists do — from sourcing companies to evaluating companies to adding value to founders — and using software or networks to do it better.

The innovators in this report say yes, not just possible, but necessary. They speak to millennials asfriends, offering positive and practical advice through clean and personable websites. They encouragean ethos of care for self and others and a mindset of abundance. They argue, explicitly or implicitly, thateach person is a change maker with the... See more

As a result of these much larger outcomes we've built a movie-making system that is focused on big hits because the business model can't really absorb too many massive flops. So you get sequels, prequels, and spin-offs. Established IP and bankable stars. No big risks. And you don't get nearly as much experimentation, innovation, or creativity.

What is Cheems is laughing off someone’s sincere ideas as self-evidently stupid, or declaring with very little knowledge about a particular field or ambition that something is too difficult/too risky to even think about further. And whenever it puts someone off pursuing what they otherwise might (consciously or not), its consequence is the creation... See more