There must be something magical about starting a company in a garage. We’ve heard legendary stories repeated over the years—a few rogue innovators set up shop in someone’s garage and create the beginnings of massive success. Stories might come to mind like Jobs and Wozniak, and Hewlett and Packard. They conjure up images of secretive prototyping, overnight brainstorming and tinkering, and change-the-world vision. It makes you wonder what is it about garages and innovation? Is it about a being in a space where you can’t damage anything, or where you won’t be bothered? Is it about being in a place that’s hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and probably a bit dusty? Is it really about the garage at all?Turns out that garages themselves have nothing to do with the genius of innovation.Consider 11 year-old Cassidy Goldstein of Scarsdale, New York. In 1999, she was frustrated by broken, short, crayons. She invented the Crayon Holder—a plastic device that holds even a stub of a crayon so that a child can still color. Consider this for a second. Crayola has been making wax crayons since 1903. No one ever got frustrated by broken crayons? Goldstein didn’t need a lab, or a factory, or even a garage to innovate.
Reported by Forbes.com 1 day ago.
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