Embedded below is a presentation that I gave at Morning Startup last week.
The recipe is pretty simple:
- Focus
- Ask Questions
- Love Your Customers
- Know Your Metrics (And Motivations)
- DO!
What are you waiting for?
Morning Startup
The Purpose Of Data
"Data should do three things:
- Confirm or disprove what you were already thinking.
- Make you ask more of the right questions.
- Cause you to act on what you discover.
The power of data isn’t in the information.It’s what you do with it that matters."
Lean Startup, anyone?
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
“We need to be in the open mode when pondering a problem — but! — once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it. Because once we’ve made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness.”
Great Innovators Think Laterally
"The creative process is just that: a process. Recognizing value that others have missed doesn’t require preternatural clairvoyance. A well-honed creative process enables us to intuitively recognize patterns and use those insights to make inductive predictions about divergent ideas, both vertically within categories, and horizontally across categories. By understanding the genealogy of innovation within a given category, we can imagine what might come next."