Michael Karnjanaprakorn

I think Chris Rock is the funniest dude on the planet, period.  There’s a lot of things that I don’t find funny like #77 on Stuff White People Like – Musical Comedies.  Every now and then, I’ll pop in Bigger and Blacker, and I’ll be ROFL.  Seriously.  Laughing so hard I almost pull a muscle [...]

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Anyone going to the Pop!Tech Conference this year?
If you’re interested in going, check out the Pop!Tech Contest on the Behance Network.  First prize gets a complimentary ticket!
The world is a place of increasingly dramatic scarcities and abundances: more people, creating more wealth, has left us with fewer natural resources and fewer undisturbed wild places. The [...]

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While planning and producing The Feast, I looked at a lot of other conferences all over the world.  I compiled a list of my favorite conferences, and since there’s nothing like this on the web anywhere, I thought I would share it with all of you! Feel free to leave a comment with any conferences [...]

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Check out the first Behance article I wrote with Scott Belsky (founder of Behance). After sitting in brainstorming sessions for the past couple of years that led to nowhere, we developed some keen insights that should help you “think inside a new box.”
“Whenever we generate ideas, we’re always told to ‘think outside the [...]

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Seth sent me a great article from Mavericks at Work about unleashing freedom to achieve success. The old version way of doing things was to “work hard (for a very long time), achieve success, earn freedom (to retire and do all things you missed out on while you were working)” and the new [...]

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While playing around online, I came across some pretty interesting innovation-based companies out there. Here are a few. Please leave any others that you know about in the comments section. Thanks!

Idealab
Idealab itself employs about 70 people who provide support to the start-up companies. Employees of Idealab are compensated by Idealab, hold Idealab stock [...]

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This year, one of the common themes that I will talk about will be around innovation. The New York Times ran a couple of great articles in the past week about innovation. The first article was titled, “Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike.” Here are some of my favorite excerpts from the article.
“It [...]

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As creative professionals, we’re always told to “think outside the box” and “go crazy with creative ideas.”  But, as you know, that comes with tons of frustrations and brainstorming sessions that lead to nowhere.  How many times have you left a creative session in a worse place than where you started?  Now innovative thinkers are saying [...]

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One of my favorite brands, Behance, just conducted a great interview with Jason Wachob of Crummy Brothers.
“If you come up with a great product and everything else will take care of itself. People will find it and you. With both Crummy Brothers and MindBodyGreen, the focus was 100% on the product — not [...]

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