The Future of Innovation

This book was initiated during Henri's one of many across northern America road trips, while venturing in remote part that are strikingly reminiscent of outer space, and much less as another state, country or even a continent. The colossal gaps of disconnect between east, west and middle of nowhere, led Henri to make it his mission to write every insight he has in a way that enables anyone located anywhere to innovate and fund their ventures.Henri Swan is a firm believer that "Knowledge Without Action Worth Nothing" and each "Story has Three Sides - Yours, Theirs and the Truth", this is why he spend years crafting this book to share first rate knowledge and expertise along know-how with do- how accumulated over 20 years of been a partner, friend and neighbor in "Silicon Valley, San Francisco" and Cambridge, MA to Tech Billionaires, Investors and Founders, along prominent Subject-matter-experts, Professors, Investors and thoughts leaders from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, USC, UC system, NYU and Columbia University to list few.While been a leader at various tier one organization, including Stanford, Accenture, Google, he advised many Startup and Unicorns backed by Sequoia, Andreessen, Softbank, Google Ventures and many others through their IPO or M&A exit; he executed the entire Innovation Cycle "idea through exit" ranging from $1m to over $10 Billion Innovation Initiatives at Fortune 500 companies. He is the inventor of the On-Demand Innovation Ventures Standard which is the prerequisite foundation of Impact Investing.As a developer, technologist, investor and venture capital insider, his Insights capture the collective intelligence of Silicon Valley broad ecosystem, where he attended, sponsored and spoke at over 1,000 Tech Conferences, including Startup Pitch or Demo Day at top accelerators and incubators, along top 100 thought leaders in tech and venture capital space, encompassing emerging deep tech domains, across industries, including Digital, Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, Media, Cybersecurity, Health, BioTech, CleanTech, EdTech, AgroTech, FoodTech, Mobility, SpaceTech, Hardware, 4D, AR-VR, Shipping and Smart Manufacturing.