Parsons The New School
Predicting the Preposterous: Scenario Planning the End of Advertising
One day, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page woke up and realized they were in the advertising business. And they were sad. All of that technical prowess, all of those high IQ Stanford grads, all of that bold experimentation to optimize people buying more stuff. Sergey and Larry did something about it. They aimed at moonshots: internet balloons, working Tricorders, self-driving vehicles, eternal life, energy kites. In 2015 Read More
Venture Lab Inaugural Cohort
I’ve been working on a social impact curriculum and program at Parsons The New School. We asked student venture teams to apply to a course called Venture Lab, designed for launching potentially scalable ventures. We’ll also be studying the larger question of entrepreneurship inclusion, and how young ventures can develop, validate, and articulate their social impact vision. Looking forward to Spring’s cohort! VENTURE LAB 2017 – 2018 PARTICIPANTS by Adam Chagani on December Read More
Lean Validation for Social Impact + Design Entrepreneurs
There’s something social impact founders and design entrepreneurs have in common – a shared allergy/yuck factor when asked to make business models. We try to dispel that myth – business modeling as an iterative act of emergent and divergent discovery, pattern association, and everything fun. Business Model Validation Parsons New School from Jennifer van der Meer
Read MoreSo, You Need a Letter of Recommendation
Dear former students and employees. I’d be delighted to write you a letter of recommendation. I’ll need you to do some work first. First – make sure this is not a last-minute exercise. I’ll need a few days for synthesis, and I frequently travel, so make sure you’re giving me a minimum of a week between request and due date, and note you may still get me in a busy Read More