Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

I'm still trying to process the last week; a wonderfully relaxing and productive (not an oxymoron) sabbatical on the dock in Maine, a day at Brown with terrific kids (I'm ready to go back) and BIF-6. If you are ever, ever able to attend BIF's annual conference, spare nothing and go.

Innovation 107

Innovation Conference Process Productivity 107

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Jack Kearney : When you've got the skills and team to start building a product, it's really easy to get carried away and just 'go'. We learned a hard lesson this summer: make sure the product that you're trying to build is really needed BEFORE you start building it. The problem with this sort of thinking is that you aren't your user.

Learning-by-Doing 138

Learning-by-Doing Creativity Brainstorming Skills 138

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

At Assured Labor, I tested the adoption of new products into new markets to understand product-market fit. Why would a worker spend their scarce cash on a bus, with doubtful success of employment, to an unfamiliar area in a dangerous city like Bogotá from an unknown employer?

Short-term 187

Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Conference in February, 2012 was a half day event in which questions such as “What If There Were Carfree Cities?,” ” were asked, discussed in small groups, digested over a large meal together, and then given life well beyond the close of the Conference. Our second conference this past March was a two day event.

Venture Capitalist 132

Venture Capitalist Conference Education Class 132

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

What I see is the opposite – incredible innovation in products, services, processes and business models. That’s what makes the annual BIF conference so important: 30 plus stories of amazing, cool, disruptive, transformative innovation models. It’s just not in the mainstream media. BIF-7 Story & Video ).

Blanchard 124

Blanchard Video Venture Funding Innovation 124

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

A single conference room. As the day went on, the conversation grew more and more productive. On Sunday, January 6, delegates from Common Sense Action (@CSAction) chapters across the nation gathered at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington to finalize the Agenda for Generational Equity, CSA’s foundational policy agenda.

Kaplan 194

Kaplan Policies Politics Chief Executive Officer 194