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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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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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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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Three of our core corporate values are inclusiveness, collaboration, and humility.
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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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Hollywood Joohn Tatum? He does at least 6,000 sit ups and 10,000 pushups a day!
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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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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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One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.
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Anytime you see a constrained market, where consumption is limited to those who have special skills or are wealthy, that signals an opportunity for innovation.
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It would be fun too to put some of the great philosophers and political scientists of the past couple centuries into a time machine, have them look at the world today, and see what they think. Imagine Schumpeter, Malthus, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx, and more! That would be good fun.
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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.
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I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.
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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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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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I find social media as fun and engaging as the next person, but imagine if all the creative talent that was pouring into finding increasingly clever ways for us to broadcast daily banality (and then serve ads based on what is learned) instead focused on some of the UN Millennium goals? The world would be a better place.
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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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You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
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If you are trying to improve the performance of existing operations in known markets, it is an analytical problem where it's just a question of aligning your execution engine in the right way. If it is about creating something new and different, you can't derive the right answer analytically.
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