The smartphone is a mass market product
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View ArticleFlashback
A post this morning on Engadget about the similarity between the most recent ad for the iPad, and one for the original Apple Newton gave me a profound sense of déjà vu. It’s far from unusual to see...
View ArticleNetflix’s dirty secret – the content sucks!
Although Netfliix’s Instant Streaming Service is now available on a bewildering variety of devices, has grown explosively and drives an impressive valuation on the stock market, here’s the dirty...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to R&D, Money Can’t Buy You Happiness
Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia brings enormous resources to bear on the future of Windows Phone. Likewise, Google’s purchase of Motorola was intended to leverage its IP, and to apply almost limitless...
View ArticleEndeavour Partners’ Library Project
What do Edward Tufte, Ken Auletta, and Diane Coyle have in common? They’re just three of the hundreds of authors lining the perimeter of Endeavour Partner’s office. Our shelves are loaded with...
View ArticleConsumer Engagement is the Future of Healthcare
Consumer engagement is proving to be one of the keystones of behavior change for technology companies. There is a huge disparity in how companies are taking advantage of the opportunities created by...
View ArticleThe Future of Activity Trackers (Part 3): The Secret to Long-Term Engagement
[Third in a three-part series on the future of activity trackers] Sustained consumer engagement is emerging as the key challenge for companies developing wearable devices, or those developing...
View ArticleSmartphone Innovation Isn’t Dead
Over the last few years, the drum beat proclaiming that smartphone innovation is coming to its end has become louder and louder. If you look at smartphones the way people used to compare PCs, it’s easy...
View ArticleThree Critical Factors Wearable Devices Need to Succeed
In his GigaOM column, Chairman Michael A.M. Davies describes the factors that the next generation of devices and services needs to focus on to keep users engaged in the long-term. ———- At least ten new...
View ArticleHow Do Current Wearables Stack Up?
Endeavour Partners assessed eight wearables currently on the market. We incorporated them into our lives and experienced their strengths and weaknesses first hand. We then assessed each qualitatively,...
View ArticleCreating the Next Great Smartphone
In a Wired Innovation Insights bog post, Chairman Michael Davies talks about how emergence — imaginative and unexpected combinations of components — will result in the next stage of smartphone...
View ArticleWearables in the News (Part 2)
Wearables continue to make news as investors, inventors, and innovators race to leverage the opportunities. From business and technology to fashion and health, reporters are covering the story. They...
View ArticleWearables Scorecard: How Successful Will Your Wearable Be?
We really enjoyed reading Tim Chang’s piece in TechCrunch on the wearables playbook. Tim is Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, one of the oldest venture capital firms in the U.S. His post was full of...
View ArticleThe Daily Show Looks At Google Glass Privacy Concerns
In last week’s column, TechRepublic Editor Teena Hammond describes the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass.”There’s such a social stigma to wearing Google Glass that even “The Daily Show with Jon...
View ArticleWhy Simpler Choices Mean Happier Customers
Imagine, for a moment, that you are standing in an aisle full of multivitamins. Spread before you are 84 varieties of multivitamin, each with a different mineral make-up, each with varying...
View ArticleWhat “Going Viral” Means for Ecosystems
Have you seen the latest Adidas World Cup video: The Dream featuring Lionel Messi? It’s gone viral — every product marketer’s dream with over 38 million views. But when we talk about technology, going...
View ArticleNew White Paper: Inside Wearables (Part 2)
In January 2014, Endeavour Partners published research which showed that behavioral factors – habit formation, social motivation, and goal reinforcement – could make or break wearable engagement. Our...
View ArticleBuild it and it will fail…unless
– Sunny Ahn, Partner, Endeavour Partners Over the last few decades, we have helped numerous companies launch new products and services. Through this I have learned why customer discovery is so...
View ArticleWhite Paper: A new experience model for the smart home and consumer IoT
Endeavour Partners has just released a new white paper entitled A new experience model for the smart home and consumer IoT. This piece offers an alternative vision for the future of consumer IoT and...
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