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Scott D. Anthony
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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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You can increase the odds of spotting the weak points in your approach if you really think about the end-to-end business model you plan to follow - how you plan to create, capture, and deliver value.
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I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.
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Think about how much it costs to learn more. Sometimes you want to build confidence by knocking off the easy things.
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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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Make sure that you take the time to think about how other companies might respond to your idea, both those companies already in the market you plan to target as well as others that might imagine targeting that market.
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The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money.
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There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.
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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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Of course, it is worth it to take the time to think carefully through your assumptions, and ensure you at least have hypotheses around how you will create value. But use the analysis as a way to focus attention on the most critical assumptions, rather than spend a ton of time massaging the numbers.
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Everyone knows innovation involves developing unique understanding of a market, thinking expansively to develop a solution, and then finding a way to test rigorously and adapt quickly.
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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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People who copy what exists copy a point-in-time artifact, and if you are managing the process correctly you are already hard at work on the next thing.
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Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!
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Teams working on disruptive ideas need to be small enough that they can be fed by no more than two pizzas.
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Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching all of this is an intrinsic interest in working through puzzles.
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Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.
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The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.
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A spreadsheet for an innovative idea reports the mathematical relationship between made up numbers. You can't cash a spreadsheet.
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I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.
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There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a beginner's mind, be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.
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