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Innovation Without Risk Is Not Innovation
Has this ever happened to you? I was on a call with one of my former clients a few years ago. They were discussing a new product development process that would generate…
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Will 96% of Businesses Fail Within 10 Years?
When I read that statistic, I thought it pretty odd. I mean, are the companies that are around us now all less than ten years old? Are they all part of that…
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Denying Your True Human Nature? Here’s What Happens When You Do
What are humans really like? I think we all, deep down, know the answer to that question. Yet, we still hold out hope that humans can change their nature. We feel that since…
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3 Ways To Put Time On Your Side
Set Your Deadline To Half The Time You Think You Need A while back, I read “When,” Dan Pink’s latest book on time. It was an interesting read to be sure, but…
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Popsockets: An Innovation Story
TL;DR: Inventor has a problem, invents a product to solve his problem, tries the product out with friends and family, friends and family use the product for a completely different purpose, inventor…
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Open Your Mind To Alternate Realities
When you think about it, we are all living in a multiverse of realities. What we each experience is our own reality. Even when more than one of us is in the…
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The Internet Is Theft
Copying Is Profitable, But Is It Innovative? Does It Have To Be? The Internet Is Theft – Me During a course on launching disruptive technologies, the professor turned his nose up at…
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Say Yes To Everything
Being a huge Star Trek fan – (growing up during reruns of the Original Series and the Animated Series, Kirk has always been the best captain – although I do share more…
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Just Start And Keep Going
As of today, I’ve written nearly 500 posts for this blog, recorded approximately 250 podcasts, and recorded over 60 innovation videos (not counting the other 300 plus videos I recorded in my…
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What Happens When You Succeed?
There are many, many, many stories of failure in the innovation world, the startup world, and the VC world. Interestingly, all three of those worlds treat failure differently: in the innovation world,…
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