In this blog, I continue my conversation with Steve Forbes, chairman and CEO of Forbes Media -- sharing with you his top eight recommendations for success.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes. In my effort to extract from top CEOs...

This is the first part of my two-part blog about my conversation with Steve Forbes, chairman and CEO of Forbes Media, speaking about free markets, bold innovations and how he embraces change.

Steve Forbes is a friend who helped me launch my book, Abundance, holding my first-ever launch party at...

This week at XPRIZE's Visioneering 2013, 120 of the world's visionary thinkers will gather for three days to discuss the world's grand challenges, and how we might solve them using incentive competitions. The event itself is extremely inspiring and a lot of fun, attracting an incredible 'who's who' from the...

In this blog, I'm continuing my conversation with Jay Rogers, CEO and co-founder of Local Motors, the open-source automotive design company. Here, Jay shares how he builds and engages his 30,000-person crowd.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to...

In this blog, I'm introducing you to Jay Rogers, CEO and co-founder of Local Motors, an open-source automotive design company that uses the power of the crowd to innovate a 100-year-old industry.

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a "crowd" accomplish?...

In this blog, I'm continuing my conversation with TopCoder founder Jack Hughes, who gives us the steps that TopCoder took to build its community.

In my previous two posts about the open-innovation platform TopCoder, I introduced you to its methods. Now I want to explore how TopCoder engages with its...

In this blog, I'm talking with entrepreneur Jack Hughes, founder of the open-innovation platform TopCoder, which brings together specialists from around the world to work on projects that end up costing far less than if these projects were done in-house.

TopCoder is a remarkable platform that connects corporations, organizations and...

In this blog, I'm continuing my talk with entrepreneur Philip Rosedale, who explains the "secret sauce" of Silicon Valley -- unveiling why Silicon Valley is such a hotbed of entrepreneurship.

I was interviewing Philip Rosedale, creator of the platforms Second Life and Coffee and Power, at Singularity University when he...

In this blog, I'm continuing my conversation with Philip Rosedale, founder of Second Life -- and his newest company Coffee and Power. Here, Philip explores his belief in the new way of employment, the new virtual company and what he learned in the process of creating new ways of doing...

In this blog, I'm introducing you to the work of Philip Rosedale, who set out on a very bold mission to create a virtual world accessible to the masses. How does one even think about doing something on this scale? What are the lessons learned? Enjoy!

I caught up with...

In this blog, I'm continuing my exploration of what Chris Anderson's company DIY Drones has done in using open-source methods to create products that are exponentially less expensive to make.

After more than a decade as the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams --...

In this blog, I'm introducing you to one of the premier do-it-yourself sites out there, Chris Anderson's DIY Drones, and how his kind of open-source innovation is changing the way products are created.

I'm a huge fan of Chris Anderson's DIY Drones, and how his model of creating a Do-It-Yourself...

In this blog, I'm revisiting the remarkable ad-creation marketplace Tongal, which had its own recent Super Bowl victory.

As everyone knows, the Super Bowl is almost as much about the commercials as it is about football. The Monday-morning quarterbacking of what particular ads were touchdowns or which ones were fumbles...

In this blog I'm going to talk further about the video content creation site Tongal and outline its founder James DeJulio's suggestions for how best to use it.

As we saw in my last blog, Tongal uses exponential mechanisms to create video advertising content that's much more cost-effective, timely and...

In this blog I'm going to talk about how Tongal has revolutionized the world of video-content creation, and how it's been upending the closed world of advertising and Hollywood entertainment by opening up the creative process to the crowd.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with...

In this blog I'm going to talk about how Crowdcast extracts useful knowledge out of the "information sphere" within a company and helps you predict the future. Crowdcast was recently acquired by Spigit, the leading social innovation platform for enterprise.

When will the product ship? How's the financing going? How's...

In this blog I'm going to talk more master game entrepreneur Luis von Ahn about his new game Duolingo, which he's using to help translate the web, and his top 10 lessons in game design.

Luis von Ahn is a master "micro-game" designer, whose last major success reCAPTCHA is now...

In this blog, I interview Luis von Ahn, a brilliant entrepreneur and game-design strategist and continue my exploration of how online games can help the crowd sort through data in a fashion that is both Fun and Free.

When you log into certain websites, sometimes the site makes you copy...

In this blog, I'll share with you what I learned from Arianna Huffington on creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation -- 10 key lessons of extraordinary benefit to any entrepreneur or CEO.

I've gotten to know Arianna Huffington very well over the past few years. We share a common Greek heritage and...

This blog outlines how my friend Lajos created an atmosphere of innovation at GE HealthCare (Hungary) -- a lesson we'll all want to remember.

Most people want to be creative, but at big companies, they're often stymied by rules, regulations and fear of failure. Lajos Reich, chief technology officer for...