What is your Startup Ecosystem OS?
What is your cultural OS?
Can you upgrade them?
Talk given in New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai on January 2013 for the World Startup Report.
Advice to Entrepreneurs from Elon Musk & Richard BransonStinson
Every entrepreneur needs a little inspiration. Here are some words from some of the greatest entrepreneurs of all times, Elons Musk and Richard Branson.
What is your Startup Ecosystem OS?
What is your cultural OS?
Can you upgrade them?
Talk given in New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai on January 2013 for the World Startup Report.
Advice to Entrepreneurs from Elon Musk & Richard BransonStinson
Every entrepreneur needs a little inspiration. Here are some words from some of the greatest entrepreneurs of all times, Elons Musk and Richard Branson.
Carmine Gallo’s book, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, reveals the 7 principles behind breakthrough success--principles that anyone can use to rethink, reinvent, and revitalize their career, brand, or business.
See the video of this here: http://youtu.be/spy6NmD6iPI
Startup life and culture is super sexy and all sorts of founders are appearing in their jeans and t-shirts and boyish/girlish grins on the covers of magazines and newspapers across North America. Seems that millions of dollars of money is being thrown left right and center at anyone with a dream and the gumption to pursue it. There has been no better time to quit your day job and pursue this. It costs next to nothing to build stuff on the web, right?
Only it isn't *exactly* like that and we're only hearing a small portion of the stories. Sure, Tara Hunt would encourage everyone with an awesome idea to pursue their dream, but in this presentation, she lays down what being a startup founder is REALLY like. She also plans to share all the tips and tricks she is learning from (continually) making a whole bunch of mistakes...because nobody is talking about this stuff. By the end of her talk, you'll either hand in your notice and go for it or shelve those dreams forever. Bring it!
This deck is a presentation on 5 Core Qualities Every Leader Must Have. The talk was given by Omolara Shitu. She is a Group Head Client Service at Brooks and Blake.
Where Do Good Ideas Come From. Lucy Gower.2012 FinalLucidity
Fundraising is tough. Unless, as individuals and organisations we develop our creative thinking and innovation skills our fundraising will lag behind.
Innovation isn’t about a genius working in isolation. Good ideas are formed from a series of previously unconnected connections. So how do you increase your chances of making those connections and developing ideas?
The next big disruption in lifelong learning will be by design. We are innately trained and poised to have a global impact on how other people can survive and thrive, whether they are designers or not. In this talk from AIGA Seattle's Into the Woods 2012 conference, David Sherwin points out opportunities and shares tools he's gathered to encourage people to be better critical thinkers and problem solvers, using the activity areas of the Collective Action Toolkit as a frame (which at the time was still a work in progress).
As a society, we're in the age of transformation, yet we're applying old metaphors and running our transformations like software projects. Let's start to consider transformational change as a series of social movements.
We are excited to have the second Pau Hana in our series of "Meet the Mentors" this upcoming Tuesday, November 13th! Join us as we have a dynamic talk on innovation and failure from ex-Google and Cisco design lead - Ben Sykes! Alan Tien kicked off our first Pau Hana with a talk on Block Chain and it was a packed house! https://buff.ly/2qFamsY
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This is a presentation - a new version - of Sparking Innovation and Fostering Innovation delivered May 26, 2010 to a group of UHY Advisors young professionals and clients.
Despite spending vast amounts of time and money on employee engagement, engagement metrics remain stagnant. What if, instead of obsessing about how to increase employee engagement, how to improve and position your employer brand, or how to fight the war for talent, you instead put serious effort into thinking about how to improve and position your employees?
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Slides): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see handout for more).
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS:
Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us. In this lecture, we learn and practice creativity through a workshop titled "Improvised Lives".
Improvised lives are lives defined by a sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and spontaneity. Improvised living requires a playful mode of continuous learning, intense curiosity, embracing chaos and uncertainty, thinking and problem solving beyond borders, experimenting and making mistakes, and acting as an entrepreneur. In this workshop, you have opportunities to experiment with automated writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining, and creating techniques.
In addition, we have about 20 mini-puzzles to solve. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from Oscars to celebrities, from vulnerability to humor, and from wellness to fashion. Finally, we have a mini-workshop on future generations (Alpha generation in particular), explore the biggest challenge facing them (climate emergency), and discuss the number one mental problem plaguing youth of today (climate anxiety). After we give a nod to Greta Thunberg, we turn to another futurist and visionary who has set one of the most challenging and ambitious goals for himself: Elon Musk aspires to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050. We finish the lecture with a mini-workshop on "Life and Employability on Mars", where we learn surprising facts about this red planet, including the fact that creativity indeed will be a surviving skill on this planet.
Carmine Gallo’s book, The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, reveals the 7 principles behind breakthrough success--principles that anyone can use to rethink, reinvent, and revitalize their career, brand, or business.
See the video of this here: http://youtu.be/spy6NmD6iPI
Startup life and culture is super sexy and all sorts of founders are appearing in their jeans and t-shirts and boyish/girlish grins on the covers of magazines and newspapers across North America. Seems that millions of dollars of money is being thrown left right and center at anyone with a dream and the gumption to pursue it. There has been no better time to quit your day job and pursue this. It costs next to nothing to build stuff on the web, right?
Only it isn't *exactly* like that and we're only hearing a small portion of the stories. Sure, Tara Hunt would encourage everyone with an awesome idea to pursue their dream, but in this presentation, she lays down what being a startup founder is REALLY like. She also plans to share all the tips and tricks she is learning from (continually) making a whole bunch of mistakes...because nobody is talking about this stuff. By the end of her talk, you'll either hand in your notice and go for it or shelve those dreams forever. Bring it!
This deck is a presentation on 5 Core Qualities Every Leader Must Have. The talk was given by Omolara Shitu. She is a Group Head Client Service at Brooks and Blake.
Where Do Good Ideas Come From. Lucy Gower.2012 FinalLucidity
Fundraising is tough. Unless, as individuals and organisations we develop our creative thinking and innovation skills our fundraising will lag behind.
Innovation isn’t about a genius working in isolation. Good ideas are formed from a series of previously unconnected connections. So how do you increase your chances of making those connections and developing ideas?
The next big disruption in lifelong learning will be by design. We are innately trained and poised to have a global impact on how other people can survive and thrive, whether they are designers or not. In this talk from AIGA Seattle's Into the Woods 2012 conference, David Sherwin points out opportunities and shares tools he's gathered to encourage people to be better critical thinkers and problem solvers, using the activity areas of the Collective Action Toolkit as a frame (which at the time was still a work in progress).
As a society, we're in the age of transformation, yet we're applying old metaphors and running our transformations like software projects. Let's start to consider transformational change as a series of social movements.
We are excited to have the second Pau Hana in our series of "Meet the Mentors" this upcoming Tuesday, November 13th! Join us as we have a dynamic talk on innovation and failure from ex-Google and Cisco design lead - Ben Sykes! Alan Tien kicked off our first Pau Hana with a talk on Block Chain and it was a packed house! https://buff.ly/2qFamsY
UHY Advisors - Sparking Creativity and Fostering InnovationChris Osborn
This is a presentation - a new version - of Sparking Innovation and Fostering Innovation delivered May 26, 2010 to a group of UHY Advisors young professionals and clients.
Despite spending vast amounts of time and money on employee engagement, engagement metrics remain stagnant. What if, instead of obsessing about how to increase employee engagement, how to improve and position your employer brand, or how to fight the war for talent, you instead put serious effort into thinking about how to improve and position your employees?
Open Your Mind, Open Your Library (Slides): Texas Library Association 2016M.J. D'Elia
As libraries face new technologies, shifting priorities, and ever-increasing competition for resources, they must learn to respond creatively to problems. You'll leave this active, hands-on session with activities and strategies you can take back to your library to make it a more creative organization (see handout for more).
ART DESCRIPTION/SYNOPSIS:
Creativity is no longer a luxury. It is a critical survival skill that we need to adapt to rapid changes, solve complex problems, imagine new possibilities, and navigate uncharted waters ahead of us. In this lecture, we learn and practice creativity through a workshop titled "Improvised Lives".
Improvised lives are lives defined by a sense of adventure, curiosity, exploration, and spontaneity. Improvised living requires a playful mode of continuous learning, intense curiosity, embracing chaos and uncertainty, thinking and problem solving beyond borders, experimenting and making mistakes, and acting as an entrepreneur. In this workshop, you have opportunities to experiment with automated writing, doodling, drawing, ideating, imagining, and creating techniques.
In addition, we have about 20 mini-puzzles to solve. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from Oscars to celebrities, from vulnerability to humor, and from wellness to fashion. Finally, we have a mini-workshop on future generations (Alpha generation in particular), explore the biggest challenge facing them (climate emergency), and discuss the number one mental problem plaguing youth of today (climate anxiety). After we give a nod to Greta Thunberg, we turn to another futurist and visionary who has set one of the most challenging and ambitious goals for himself: Elon Musk aspires to send 1 million people to Mars by 2050. We finish the lecture with a mini-workshop on "Life and Employability on Mars", where we learn surprising facts about this red planet, including the fact that creativity indeed will be a surviving skill on this planet.
I attended the Behance 99% Conference in May of 2012. It was a very inspirational and fascinating experience. These slides capture some of my impressions, as well as some direct quotes from conference speakers.
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Startups and Smalltak - Presented at Smalltalks2014 Córdoba, Argentinasebastian sastre
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Case studies of how some robotics startups from the HAX portfolio managed to finance their first stages, get to market and scale. Talk given at R18 Conference in Odense, Denmark in September 2018.
"Cultural Awareness" will help work globally, save your marriage and get deliveries on time.
This talk refers "culture codes" and the eponymous book by Clotaire Rapaille, as well as Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" world model.
The world is being redefined beyond frontiers by digital civilizations, and games are at the forefront of it. Talk given via Skype at Bitspiration in Poland on June 2012.
Can your game make millions in Asia? If 1% of Asians would pay a $1! This presentation is a bit of a reality check given for Yetizen given in May 2012 in San Francisco.
Review of interesting Social-Local-Mobile services, with ideas on top. Talk given at KR8V.Asia in February 2012 in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Manila.
> What are the opportunities in non-Western civilizations? Can they build global innovative products and services? Can the next Steve Jobs be Brazilian?
> Talk given at TEDxFIAP in Sao Paulo in November 2011.
Can China innovate? How does the Chinese Internet relate to Galapagos penguins? This -and more - unveiled for the price of free.
Talk given at the National University of Singapore in October 2011.
Check your Cross-Cultural Quotient!
"East vs. West" has become irrelevant as civilizations engage and clash. English as lingua franca conveys words, while meanings differ.
Talk given at Blink-Blank in Singapore in September 2011.
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Implicitly or explicitly all competing businesses employ a strategy to select a mix
of marketing resources. Formulating such competitive strategies fundamentally
involves recognizing relationships between elements of the marketing mix (e.g.,
price and product quality), as well as assessing competitive and market conditions
(i.e., industry structure in the language of economics).
5. Pivots?
“Go
that
way,
really
fast.
If
something
get
in
your
way,
turn”
(from
the
movie
“Alive
Not
Dead”)
6. ASSISTED
BLIND
PIVOT:
I
CAN’T
REALLY
HELP
YOU
WITH
YOUR
PIVOTS
“Change
based
on
the
advice
of
investors,
mentors,
“lean
startup
experts“,
etc.
who
also
haven’t
go.en
out
of
the
building
and
talked
to
the
humans.”
Check
Tristan
Kromer’s
excellent
“Taxonomy
of
the
Startup
Pivot”
h(p://grasshopperherder.com/taxonomy-‐of-‐the-‐lean-‐startup-‐an-‐pivot/
7.
8. Hats
• Digital
Naturalist
– Founder
of
+8*
|
Plus
Eight
Star
– 12
years
across
Asia
• Startup
Therapist
– Angel
investor
in
8
startups
– Advisor
to
5
Accelerators
• Speaker
– 150+
talks
in
21
countries
(TEDx,
SxSW,
LeWeb…)
– 250,000
views
on
Slideshare
9. PLAN
1. Some
ideas
2. Startup
1
3. Startup
2
4. Conclusion
12. James
Altucher
• Write
10
ideas
a
day
• Throw
them
away
I
highly
recommend
his
columns!
Wring
10
ideas
a
day
will
make
you
realize
that
ideas
are
common.
Good
ideas
are
rare,
but
your
chances
get
higher
with
MORE
IDEAS.
13. Nick
Yang
• Ideas
• Passion
• Skills
Nick
Yang
is
a
serial
entrepreneur
in
China.
He
built
(among
other
things)
the
largest
mobile
content
provider
(KongZhong)
and
took
it
to
IPO.
15. Thomas
Edison
• Not
the
first
light
bulb
• Not
the
only
light
bulb
• First
large-‐scale
business
A
light
bulb
represents
ideas
“thanks”
to
Thomas
Edison.
He
“owns”
the
symbol,
but
his
contribuon
was
not
what
people
think.
To
me,
the
light
bulb
is
a
terrible
symbol
for
ideas.
16. Passion?
When
I
hear
“passion”
I
think
of
this.
While
it
shows
commitment,
does
it
have
to
be
painful?
17. Passion
Can
Grow
• 2
types
of
entrepreneurs
• Passionate
about
business
• Ideas
change
anyway
• Passion
grows
with
work
&
improvement
Broadly
speaking,
entrepreneurs
are
“arsts”
or
“business
people”.
Passion
about
business
looks
more
“viable”.
18. Skills
• Re-‐usable
• Keep
improving
• Market
value
To
Nick
Yang,
skills
are
key.
Ideas
are
everywhere,
passion
can
grow
once
results
come.
But
nothing
comes
without
skills.
19. Cmune
First
investment
/
Co-‐founding
Quick
story
about
a
company
I
am
involved
in.
20. Pivots
• Pivots
– 2007
“3D
collaboraon”
– 2008
5
prototypes
– 2009
1
game
• Business
– 2010
Clean
up
everything
– 2011
Raise
money
from
Skype
Founder
– 2012
1M
Likes
Quite
a
few
pivots
on
the
business
side…
25. First
Lessons
• Early
adopters?
• No
clear
problem
• Exisng
competors
• Deadpool
of
others
But
not
enough
research:
what’s
the
problem?
who
is
it
for?
Also
found
similar
live
and
dead
services,
none
growing
much.
26. Product
Lessons:
5
seconds
rule
1. What
you
do
2. What
I
can
do
3. Why
it’s
for
me
3
things
visitors
have
to
figure
out
in
a
few
seconds
27. Summary
• “Don’t
make
me
think”
• “Charming
content”
Self-‐explanatory
is
best
+
Show
me
something
I
care
about!
28. Build
Minimal,
Measure,
Iterate
Fast
• Minimal
funcons
• Find
pa=erns
• Design
debt
Keep
funcons
and
design
as
simple
as
possible
(but
not
simplisc)
or
risk
building
waste
and
incur
design/technical
debt
(changes
take
more
and
more
me)
31. “To
build
a
successful
business
you
need
a
great
team,
a
good
idea
and
a
lot
of
hard
[and
smart]
work.”
Startups
are
LOTS
OF
WORK
32. Typical
startup
• #FAIL
• 2
years
to
know
if
you
are
onto
something
• 4
years
to
get
somewhere
• Lots
of
hard
work
and
stress
• Freedom?
(vs.
job
or
small
business)
And
typically
take
4
YEARS
when
they
succeed!
You
will
have
less
me
and
likely
much
less
money.
Be
aware
of
that
(though
ignorance
might
also
help
you
get
started)
33. The
Friends
and
Family
Pivot
Most
startups
end
up
with
a
“F
&
F
Pivot”
34. “Create
real
products
or
solve
real
problems
instead!
It’s
not
harder,
it’s
just
different.
Plus
you
can
actually
make
a
difference
in
someone’s
life!”
4
years
of
your
life
with
lots
of
work
&
no
money
has
be(er
be
for
something
you
care
about
35. Thanks!
A
successful
pivot:
benjamin@plus8star.com
|
@benjaminjoffe