XSITE 2012: Accelerating Innovation, Captured on Camera

Don’t fret if you weren’t one of the 500 or so people registered for our XSITE conference yesterday. We’ve pulled together the top 10 quotes and takeaways from the program, and for those who learn by seeing, we’ve got a photo gallery too.

Our theme for the day at Babson College was Accelerating Innovation, and we brought in top thinkers from established and startup companies near and far to share their insights. Phil Libin of Evernote gave a candid lists of reasons why not to start a company, Terrafugia’s Carl Dietrich conceded that it was OK to call his company’s vehicle a flying car, and Bill Warner advised founders to chase joy, not pain relief, when creating a company. And that’s not even the half of it. Take a look through the images below to get a more comprehensive look at the day, and try to spot yourself in the crowd if you were there. A big thanks to everyone who was part of the event.

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XSITE 2012: Accelerating Innovation — Evernote CEO Phil Libin advised against becoming an entrepreneur for the power. He says CEOs are really at the bottom of the org chart!
Photo by Keith Spiro Photography courtesy of Kendall Press
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Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.