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Minding the Gap : the Case Against Anthropology in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to understand the world such as it ‘really is’. They just need to get a good enough grasp of a given context.
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Making Belief : A Brief History of World Expos
World expos might have played out their roles today, but historically they’ve had three important functions to fill.
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Sundar Pichai in da House : Google’s CEO on AI, the Digital Divide and the Future of Robotics
His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.
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Two Types of Failure, part II : Process Over Product
If all you care about is to perfect your process, a great product will eventually follow.
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Things I Didn’t Know About IP Protection
Just because it’s patentable doesn’t mean it works.
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Introducing Straddle, a Framework For Validating Startup Ideas
A good framework paves a way for the mind, making it easier to grasp a reality which will always remain chaotic in its essence.
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Disruption Disrupted : How Big Tech Keeps Innovative Startups at Bay
Everyone who read Clayton Christensen *knows* that startups will eat incumbents for breakfast. That’s why they call it disruption!
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The Patron Driven Value Proposition
Great ideas are often met with fierce resistance and then suddenly become the new norm seemingly over-night.
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Preparing For the Next War
Reading Carlota Perez feels like looking at one of those images doctors use to diagnose colour blindness; where before there was just a jumble of dots, patterns emerge.
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Girly Stuff
The system has always worked hard to hide the fact that women are just as brilliantly ingenious innovators as men are.
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Sometimes Slowing Down Will Make You Go Faster
There’s a reason why there’s such a cult around speed in startup culture. Whoever reaches the market first has a huge advantage, so you better get there before your competitors do, because the first mover advantage often eclipses the importance of who has the best product.
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Where Is This Road Taking Us?
Queues are the Viet Cong of software engineering; the asymmetrical threat you can’t predict.
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Product Spells D-E-V-I-C-E + S-E-R-V-I-C-E
Segmentation is marketing’s most discussed and least understood concept.
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Customer Value as North Star
Just because you’re metric driven, doesn’t mean you’re going in the right direction.
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Take Me to the Moon
Communicating what you want done is the essence of product management, but finding the right level of abstraction can be hard.