venture capital

Kicking off 2012: Ten predictions for an innovative year in aging

Image: Flickr / Kadman 420 Aging2.0 had a nice long winter break and has come back refreshed and revitalized. Whatever the Mayans think, this feels like a good year, and I predict one that some smart entrepreneurs will start to make out like bandits in the aging space. These will be the ones who have [...]

A hundred pilots don't a market make

I had an interesting conversation with Simon Roberts this morning about the reasons for the slow pace of take up of aging-focused products. Simon is an anthropologist, and spent 6 years working on innovations in the aging space at Intel (now at a cerebral-sounding strategy and innovation consultancy, RedAssociates) and set up their aging-focused lab in Ireland. [...]