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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Entrepreneurial success hinges on generating breakthrough ideas. In the book Alien Thinking , three innovation professors at IMD Business School argue that people who generate truly breakthrough ideas look at their world like aliens–outsiders unburdened by the assumptions, biases and conventional thinking that constrain imagination.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. Boards shouldn’t assume that situations are broadly applicable but by introducing views from experience across many companies this should give executives ideas they may not have seen on their own. This should all be handled outside the board meeting.

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Logic of the Lemmings: Making sense of the VC pile-ons

This is going to be BIG.

Not only do you need a great team, a great idea, and be fishing in a big enough pond, but often times you also need some serious unfair advantages. They got into a Twitter conversation that lasted a full six minutes. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

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Logic of the Lemmings: Making sense of the VC pile-ons

This is going to be BIG.

Not only do you need a great team, a great idea, and be fishing in a big enough pond, but often times you also need some serious unfair advantages. They got into a Twitter conversation that lasted a full six minutes. I just had just written about Foursquare on my blog, so I was actually invited to his biz dev meeting, too.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. Talk to us about when you got the idea for BuildOnline and how that came to be – how you finally got out of the job. I don’t have regrets about that. No other reason.

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Challenges With The Lean Startup Methodology

Reforge

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. He was previously Head of Product for LinkedIn Sales Navigator, growing it from idea to $200M in sales in 1.5 Pivot some dimension of their product idea if the feedback is negative. years, and from 0 to 500 employees.

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The 6 best Pomodoro timer apps in 2023

The Zapier Blog

Here's what you do: You set a timer for 25 minutes, work until it's up, then take a 5-minute break—and repeat the whole process three more times. After that, you take a 15- to 30-minute break, depending on how you feel. The work blocks are just 25 minutes long. Set a timer for 25 minutes.

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