Where are the new little guys?

Corbett | August 3, 2007 10:46 AM

I found this interesting snippet of information while reading up on the TechSearch vs Intel case, written by Ray Niro who defended TechSearch.

"Consider these names of individual inventors who ultimately formed companies to exploit their ideas but initially manufactured nothing: Westinghouse (air brake), Ford (car), Gillette (razor), Hewlett-Packard (oscillation generator), Otis (elevator), Harley (motorcycle shock absorber), Colt (revolving gun), Goodrich (tires), Goodyear (synthetic rubber), Carrier (air treatment), Noyce (Intel), Carlson (Xerox), Eastman (laser printer camera), Land (Polaroid), Shockley (semiconductor), Kellogg (grain harvester), DuPont (gun powder), Nobel (explosives), the Wright brothers (aircraft), Owens (glass), Steinway (pianos), Bessemer (steel), Jacuzzi (hot tub), Smith & Wesson (firearm), Burroughs (calculator), Carothers (nylon), Curtiss (aircraft), Houdry (catalytic cracker), Marconi (wireless communication), Goodard (rocket), Diesel (internal combustion engine), Fermi (neutronic reactor), Disney (animation), Sperry (Gyroscope), Williams (helicopter), even Abraham Lincoln who was granted U.S. Patent No. 6,469."

We often forget that the spark of innovation often started from the little guy. What I'm wondering now is where are the next generation of little guys? The last one I met was Dr. Tomihisa Kamada, who invented cHTML, which helped power the whole Docomo rage, which was the catalyst and business model for our whole current way of looking at the mobile phone.

Category: Ramble

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