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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.

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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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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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Successful strategies adhere to a basic pattern.
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The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.
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It's very easy to skip steps when documenting an idea.
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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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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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Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.
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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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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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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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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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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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