I was invited through LinkedIn to join a new service called Mosaichub (www.mosaichub.com) – as I suspect many people reading this were. It is a pretty straightforward and well executed idea – connect managers, leaders and entrepreneurs with each other and some independents (i.e. consultants, students, writers) to share ideas and find talent. One of […]
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One of the common characteristics I’ve found in most successful innovators is a strong sense of curiosity. They are genuinely interested in deeply understanding customers, existing solutions, competition, etc. It is through this deep understanding that they often find new ways to look at problems, ways to bring ideas from other disciplines, ways to separate
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I recently got a dog – a very, very high energy and smart dog – a breed that is often a working dog. When we met with her foster parents ahead of adopting her – they said “she pulls a lot, barks at other dogs and is tough to walk on leash, but she is GREAT
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Perhaps the most frustrating part of building new products or innovating in general is that you’re almost never right when you start. No matter how much analysis you do before you start, how confident you are, you’re still almost always wrong about most things. Almost all great breakthrough products succeeded after they failed – often
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As a corporate entrepreneur, you should think of yourself first as an entrepreneur and next as an employee. As an entrepreneur, negotiate terms with your investors BEFORE you get started. It’s always too late once you start showing signs of success.
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I’m a huge fan of Nassim Taleb – especially his Black Swan Trilogy (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan and Antifragile). It struck me recently that perhaps the biggest obstacle I’ve had to face in selling ideas, obtaining funding and building new businesses is that the people around me don’t have skin in the game –
Idea centric approach: Entrepreneur centric approach:
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