{"id":201,"date":"2014-05-04T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T07:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/?p=201"},"modified":"2014-05-04T17:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T07:33:05","slug":"this-week-i-learned-innovation-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/2014\/05\/this-week-i-learned-innovation-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week I Learned: Innovation Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one theme this week, it’s innovation –\u00c2\u00a0 MacGyver-style “doing more with less” (lamps made from a bottle of water); amusing gimmickry (giant soft toys + cafe = win); and the biases that, depressingly, extend to funding innovation. Read on:<\/p>\n

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  1. Venture capital investors prefer funding men over women, and handsome men over ugly ones<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Rich Americans (according to pollsters) prefer investing in stocks and real estate; poor Americans prefer gold<\/a>. What does that say?<\/li>\n
  3. Cheap, simple bottle lights<\/a> for illuminating buildings during the day.<\/li>\n
  4. On a lighter note, here is a look at windscreen stickers as the new family portraits<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. A Dutch online fashion retailer gives customers 15 minutes to try on clothes, and if the clothes don’t fit, the customers can return them to the courier who dropped them off<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. This Japanese cafe seats solo patrons with cute stuffed animals.<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. And speaking of cute stuffed animals, Hello Kitty promotions have an interesting history in Singapore<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. How to brew tea inside a tank<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If there’s one theme this week, it’s innovation –\u00c2\u00a0 MacGyver-style “doing more with less” (lamps made from a bottle of water); amusing gimmickry (giant soft toys + cafe = win); and the biases that, depressingly, extend to funding innovation. Read … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-week-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.petersahui.com\/optimist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}