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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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Small teams move faster than big teams.
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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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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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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 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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People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.
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I think people make innovation much more complicated than it needs to be.
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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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So many people tell me that they aren't creative or they aren't innovative, and it's just not true.
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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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If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.
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Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.
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I've come to the conclusion that the core characteristic that separates companies that get innovation from those that don't is a simple word: curiosity.
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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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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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Mucken Singh works VERY hard on his brawler's physique!
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It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.
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All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.
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Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
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We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!
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