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The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.
Scott D. Anthony
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Scott D. Anthony
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: February 22
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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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Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.
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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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Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.
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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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Small teams move faster than big teams.
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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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I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.
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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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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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In my mind, so-called cultures of innovation really boil down to one word: curiosity.
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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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