News Volume I Issue 11
 
Living in Digital Times
 
The Entrepreneurial/Innovation Issue
 
 
 
 
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Young Innovators Update
 
Emma Yang Featured in WWDC Film: What is a Developer. When she was only twelve years old, New-York based Emma Yang created an app to help her grandmother who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Emma has continued to perfect her app. She's also become something of an evangelist for developers, particularly women. Read a profile of her in Fast Company. This month, Apple included Emma as part of its WWDC event in this film celebrating what it means to be a developer.

In addition, Shalin Shah who, at 17, created a glaucoma detection app and Sara Du, who at 17, also received Young Innovators Awards, have been invited to speak about their work at an upcoming Frost and Sullivan Conference on entrepreneurship this fall in San Diego. Applications for this year's Young Innovators award open on Sept 1.
 
 
 
The Internet Has Now Shaped a Generation of Kids
 
Futurepodcast talks to Living in Digital Times Founder, Robin Raskin, about how the connected lifestyle is affecting a new generation, for better and for worse. Listen to the interview here:
 
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Older Innovators, Keener Insights
 
We've been thinking a lot about baby boomers that simply refuse to stop innovating. The notion of a 20-something white guy in a hoodie as innovator-in-chief is a bit of myth. As a matter of fact, research is showing that most entrepreneurs really see the fruits of their labors in their 30s and 40s. And many do their best life's work after that, often in the capacity of advisers, mentors and champions of innovation. According to this infographic one in three new businesses in the US was started by an entrepreneur age 50 or older. Many of them transform from hands-on to advising and running companies, to helping pave the way for a new generation of innovation. Some of the ones I've been in touch with are impressive role models. There's Tim Draper, whose bold prediction that Bitcoin will be worth $250,000 by 2020 might seem like ramblings of aging insanity until you look at his track record for dreams come true. He's invested in Skype, Overture, Baidu, Tesla, Parametric Technology, Hotmail, Digidesign, Twitch.tv, and hundreds of others, making his expertise readily available to all of them. He was also one of the original purchasers of Bitcoin, correctly prophesying, almost to the day, that Bitcoin would hit the $10,000 mark in 2017. His prediction was made a full three years earlier, while Bitcoin hovered around $300.

Stephen Wolfram, whose early software Mathematica set the standard for a new sort of data insight and analysis software, has now topped that with the Alpha language, a natural language and way to think about how to solve complex computational problems. Dr. Rebecca Parsons, at ThoughtWorks, who only after years of work as a software developer in the enterprise, is putting her imprimatur on technology by outlining the various types of biases you may accidentally employ in your algorithms. Former Apple CEO, John Sculley, has aged like a fine wine, candidly admitting personal missteps (like the Steve Jobs firing). He's also gone on to adeptly mentor other entrepreneurs, from Sonny Vu at Misfit (bought by Fossil) to a number of successful healthcare companies. Mary Furlough has worked tirelessly to bring new entrepreneurs developing for the senior community with her Silicon Valley Venture Summit. Vint Cerf, one of the original thinkers in the conception of the Internet, finds himself at Google, serving as an evangelist but also a gatekeeper and voice of reason in policy issues and ethics surrounding everything from AI to net neutrality.
 
Finally, one of my favorite second time-rounders, is former chief executive of Cisco, John Chambers. Chambers had made over 180 acquisitions in the span of the 20 years at Cisco. Some accused him of moving too fast. If anything, he says, he regrets how slowly he moved. In a recent talk at the Collision Conference, Chambers said. The world today is moving 2x to 3x faster than it did when I ran Cisco.” HIs new company, JC2 Ventures, is hellbent on finding the next great companies. He doles out humourous and safe advice on how not to fail as a startup. Many of them will be joining us at CES 2019 in Las Vegas, adding a perspective and reflection that only comes after years of hands on entrepreneurship.
 
 
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