Student of Life
In this post Steve Blank urges startup founders to consider what kind of risk they face if they want to be successful. They must figure out if they face technology risk, market risk or both? But I believe the key principle to understand here is market evolution. In order to understand market evolution I think [...]
There are so many different perspectives about the right way to create a successful startup, how do we make sense of all this conflicting advice? Do you just have to figure out what works for you and stick to your guns? Assuming people are modeling the world correcting and not attributing their successes and failures [...]
Below is an email I wrote to a friend about the implications of what I’m working on for the future of learning and education… I got to this point by pivoting towards the vision of finding the future of learning. I’ve been down in the details of startup culture for awhile so I forgot about [...]
A comment I left on this venturehacks post on pricing by Ash Maurya in which he quoted Sean Ellis: I’m trying to reconcile the differences between your POV and Sean Ellis’. I think first off it’s important to establish the goal: To get to product market fit. Then that means the role of pricing is [...]
Once an innovation ecosystem has successfully created the structure to consistently tackle the big billion dollar opportunities, the system possesses the energy to begin evolving greater complexity, and squeezing out more efficiency. This efficiency will be realized by evolving the ecosystem to support the long tail of opportunities, which is exactly what the startup ecosystem [...]
This post is a revision of http://maxmarmer.com/2010/02/maximizing-startup-ecosystem-efficiency/ written for emergent fool. Right now the tech industry is the most innovative industry on the planet. Its success is in large part due to it being the first information age innovation ecosystem, which has implications for the future of the world, as we transition to an information [...]
This post is a revision of http://maxmarmer.com/2010/02/maximizing-startup-ecosystem-efficiency/ written for emergent fool. Over the last 3 decades the technology entrepreneurship sector has been the primary sector driving economic growth. The sector initiated the information economy and has given life to thousands of innovative companies, four of which are ten of the biggest companies in the United [...]
One of the primary stitches running across my life cloak: The primary engine driving economic growth is innovation. And we are in the midst of transitioning to a new innovation landscape as corporations are dying and the startup ecosystem matures. The innovation landscape is the overlapping theme for most of what I’m thinking about and [...]
I defined 5 steps in the entrepreneurial journey that I think most people go through. The distribution is a pyramid and only a small percentage of people make it through each stage. (1) No Desire —intrinsic motivation suppressed (usually by the school system) (2) Desire to make an impact and be entrepreneurial, but uncertainty about [...]
Original post can be found here. There are two types of organizations that are driving a majority of our economic growth: the startup and the large corporation. On one hand, we have startups, which are where the innovation is happening and on the other hand, we have corporations, which have the advantages of scale and [...]
