John Chiles Blog

Among the many things that I will remember from my MBA coursework, is this screencast by Steve Blank.  In it, Blank a lean startup evangelis...

Zhang Wuyi built a submarine.  The Chinese farmer from the Hubei province in China has designed and hand-built  seven submarines, some that...

I was reading an article in the Economis t the other day. It reported on the creation of unmanned gliders, which, unlike plane...

G eorge Bush is apparently smarter than a group of Stanford MBA students, a troubling fact, because that means he’s probably s...

A good investment In 2008 Portland entrepreneur Mike Merrill sold shares of himself in an IPO to his friends. For $1 a share, he g...

The education team is currently studying KIPP schools, specifically a middle school in Philadelphia.  KIPP is a very inno...

Residents of certain countries in Africa have resorted to using mobile phone credit as a stable, defacto currency.  According...