Here’s why I am excited about attending the Lean Startup Conference on Dec-3-2012 and offering a workshop there with Scott Sambucci on “Engineering Your Sales Process” on the day after. Q: What aspect of lean startup methods most inspires you? Lean Startup methods recognize that new markets in particular require a scientific approach that relies […]
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John Cook wrote a riff on Apple’s Ad “Here’s to the Crazy Ones” that praised entrepreneurs called “Here’s to the Sane Ones” which praised Traditionalists.
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We do a lot of work with experts in a variety of fields including law, medicine, proteomics, genomics, electronic design, 3D printing and additive manufacturing, text analytics, process mining, subsurface modeling of oil and gas deposits, parallel and heterogeneous computing, thermal engineering, design automation, and knowledge worker collaboration. This has led us to develop approaches
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Three Great Books on Generating Innovative Business Ideas These three books contain a wealth of useful suggestions for generating innovative business ideas from observing, questioning, and networking with customers and others: Innovator’s DNA “The Innovator’s DNA” by Christensen, Dyer, and Gregerson outlines a set of five skills that innovator’s use to develop entrepreneurial ideas: Associating:
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About once a week or so I get a request that looks like: Can you please fill out my 40 question survey to help me understand the market need for my new B2B product? Here’s the thing. In B2B market you want the survey to start a conversation not to extract as much info as
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Successful entrepreneurs have a passion to see their inventions adopted as innovations not admired as works of art. This is the science of startups.
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The 9-11 attack may be the question for my middle age that “where were you when John Kennedy was assassinated?” was in my youth. Osama bin Laden is now dead but the forces he helped to organize are still at work. Take a moment to remember 11 years ago and hope that our children can
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I am reading “The Wide Lens” by Ron Adner for a second time this year. It’s that good and in my opinion the best book of 2012 for entrepreneurs. I would encourage you to pick up a copy and read it. The book draws it title from the need for entrepreneurs to broaden their planning
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Insights from De Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” chapter on “How Americans Combat Individualism by the Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood”
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Don’t congratulate people for raising money. That was never the goal. The goal is building a successful and meaningful business. When people raise money, instead of congratulating them, wish them luck. Their work is just getting started. Congratulating people for financing perpetuates a problem that has plagued the startup world. The problem is that that
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I was invited to give a workshop the day after the Dec-3-2012 Lean Startup Conference and have teamed up with Scott Sambucci to offer a revised and improved version of our “Engineering Your Sales Process.” Here is the overview for this half day workshop: All companies, even those that take a lean approach, face these
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We offered a Book Club for Business Impact webinar on Sep-4-2012 that addressed “Lessons Learned Implementing The Great Demo Methodology” based on the Great Demo! book by Peter Cohan. We had two change agents join us on the panel: Barry Nelson and Jolie Rollins and our intent, consistent with the Book Club’s promise, elicit actionable
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We have two people joining Peter Cohan and myself on tomorrow’s “Lessons Learned Implementing the Great Demo! Methodology” who have not only implemented the Great Demo! at several companies but championed several disruptive products as change agents: Jolie Rollins, a consultant in healthcare information technology (HIT) change management with more than 15 years of experience
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The Great Demo! methodology offers a lean approach to sales. It encourages you to get to the point quickly with an example of a solution you believe that the customer will find valuable
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Live roundtable on lessons learned implementing the “Great Demo!” methodology Tue-Sep-4-2012 12:00 p.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Mountain 2:00 p.m. Central / 3:00 p.m. Eastern 8:00 PM London / 9:00 PM Paris & Berlin Update Sept 6: “Recap and Audio from “Lessons Learned Implementing Great Demo! Methodology“ Great Demo!: How To Create And Execute Stunning
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Here are five quotes for entrepreneurs from Branch Rickey’s Little Blue Book: Wit and Strategy from Baseball’s Last Wise Man by John Monteleone. Five Quotes For Entrepreneurs by Branch Rickey “Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort
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Join us as we explore team decision making and the challenges in blending human expertise. This talk will cover how teams become more effective at making decisions quickly and reaching a working consensus. Sean will share real world examples of where new expertise was required for project success and where expertise that had traditionally been
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Jabe Bloom (@cyetain) video presentation “Failing Well” is a detailed exploration of some key challenges outlined by Chris Argyris and Donald Schon in “Theory in Practice: Increasing Professional Effectiveness“
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George Gilder address the mental and spiritual elements of entrepreneurship in “Unleash the Mind” defining entrepreneurship as the launching of surprises.
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