Student of Life
There is a new class of ventures emerging. They’re not focused on creating the next profitable widget. Their core purpose is about empowering people with tools, knowledge, social connections to live a better life and fulfill their dreams. The currency of their value creation is broader than just along the economic spectrum. They are about [...]
It’s not about your vision it’s about what the market wants. Vision is not about creating something that’s beuatiful and elegant to you. Vision is about anticipating trends in markets and technology to begin solving an important problem that isn’t yet solvable or ready to be solved. For any big market there are a discrete [...]
Two more examples of byproducts. Focusing on byproducts makes you less likely to achieve them. Instead focus on what the real end goal should be. I recommend first reading the original post where I discussed byproducts: Why You Can’t Get More Happiness, Money and Love By Pursuing Them Directly Learning from Failure You’re first startup venture will [...]
I’m now a contributor to Emergent Fool, a blog on complex adaptive systems. My first two posts on EF are a revision of the startup ecosystem post I wrote a few months ago. I’ll share the revisions back here as well.
This post has been revised and split into two posts. I recommend reading those. Maximizing the Efficiency of the Startup Ecosystem Why Maximizing the Efficiency of the Startup Ecosystem Is Essential for Society’s Transition to an Information Economy When people hear what I’m working on they often ask me, “Why don’t you just start a [...]
