Where do Innovations come From?

I wrote this 11/28/06: "Where do innovations come from? Where are the innovators of the future located? What is the value of User Generated Innovations? The SMS is a good example of UGI. More and more innovations are coming from outside, from new sources. Internal and external collaboration is becoming essential."

• New products and services
• Differentiate Incremental and / or radical change
• Business model, organizational, process model, products and services innovations
• Innovations are not easy: now we are moving into and open source environment
• Innovation is a real challenge, how to make it happen
• Innovations can't be studied, they are made
  

Mozes Venture Funding

SMS call-and-response service Mozes will announce in the morning (20.2.2007) that the company has raised $5 million in series A venture funding from Northwest Venture Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners.

The SMS services space is one of the most active we cover and Mozes has a strikingly smart approach to the market. The Palo Alto based company, founded in 2005, offers almost the most sophisticated feature set of any consumer oriented SMS service I’ve seen yet.