Frontiers through the Ages
- Water, 1400
- Land, 1840
- Gold, 1850
- Wire, 1880
- Air, 1900
- Celluloid, 1920
- Plastic, 1950
- Space, 1960
- Silicon, 1980
- Networks, 1990
- Data, 2000
Killing your startup by listening to customers
Great post by Steve Blank. It illustrates why startups need people who are able to do more than just listen to people. They need people who are able to see meaningful patterns across customers and identify opportunities that fit the overall business goals.
Luke Williams by R Smith (by Rachel Smith)
Very cool graphical recording of Disruptive Logic from Luke Williams.
Luke had an earlier disruptive innovation post that has always resonated with me. To paraphrase poorly: don’t just try to ‘solve problems’ or ‘recognize needs’. Instead, try identifying orthodoxies and questioning clichés.
Solving needs is fine, but leads to incremental innovation in existing territories. You get solutions that are of the ‘better, easier, faster’ variety.
Identifying out-dated orthodoxies and figuring out how to break them opens up worlds of disruptive potential.
An Open Letter to Groupon
Great thoughts from Conrad Wai.
Platforms & Pixels: Don't Talk to Customers... Listen
I have seen a lot of startups and entrepreneurs lately jump on the Lean Startup bandwagon, which is great. But behind the Philosophies and Principles are a set of less discussed Practices necessary to actually follow through on the ideas.
One such distinction between Principles and Practices is…
(Source: platformsandpixels)
