This document provides an introduction to Smallbusinesscan and its purpose of creating a collaborative community for sharing wisdom and intelligence through open source and crowdsourcing approaches. It discusses how technology is driving changes like Moore's law, ambient technologies, artificial intelligence and energy innovations. Service innovation is highlighted as a trend through examples like Google, Amazon, and Ryanair commoditizing services and making some "free". The document ends by reflecting on what the author has learned over 25 years, including ideas generation, trend watching, team building, sales, passion, technology, storytelling and strategy.

1. Introduction Ron Immink Founder Smallbusinesscan.com CEO Bookbuzz (learning programmes for top executives) Dutch Entrepreneur since 1988 Best selling author Business development director Oak Tree Press Manager Invent-DCU OECD/European Bank (EBRD)/Skysong-Arizona State University/board of advisors start-ups © 2008Copyright Ron Immink

2. www.smallbusinesscan.com

3. Introduction Smallbusinesscan Purpose Collective wisdom/intelligence Wikipedia Meshed publishing/content Open source Community Social learning Crowd sourcing Technology Collaboration

5. Long view

6. Change!

7. Technology Nanno Moore’s law Immortality Energy AI Ambient technology (magic) Etc. (science=fiction)

8. Service innovation Commoditisation “Free” “Everything is service” Gaming Apple/iTunes App or website? Ipad as route to market Open vs closed

9. Service innovation Google Amazon Ryanair Best Buy Irish companies?

10. Keeping up TED Springwise Tech crunch Stanford LinkedIn McKinsey Strategy+Business Smartbrief Books 

12. Trend watching

13. Team

14. Sales, sales, sales (the new fundraising)

15. Passion

16. Technology

17. Story telling

19. www.bookbuzz.biz