Innovation Is Everywhere

  

With the rise of Silicon Valley over the past few decades, Americans have come to consider California as our bastion of innovation. But the reality is that innovation is found throughout the United States.

It's found where the first food truck rolls out onto the roads, and where the first fidget spinner spins. It's found wherever new ideas are found, and that means innovation can be found anywhere.

Even stodgy old Washington, DC, can be a haven for innovative thought. The company Bluemercury was co-founded in old DC by Barry Beck (and Marla). Their innovative way of doing cosmetics retail has created a nationwide market and spawned myriad copycat competitors. The country's most popular fast-food burger chain, Five Guys, is a DC original that innovated a novel restaurant concept that has caught on.

To innovate is to create something new, and see it reach a state of usefulness such that it eventually becomes something old. We are blessed to be surrounded by innovative minds thinking innovative thoughts virtually everywhere we go.