An interesting interview with Professor Stephen P. Bradley on the Harvard Business Review web site, about his research for a forthcoming book titled Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry.
The background to the research:
We are looking at industries that are being transformed by broadband such as the news and information industry-the younger you get, the […]
My 5th Tenet of Entrepreneurship is: Ideas are WORTHLESS. I’ve had a number of debates over the years about the value of ideas. As I wrote in my original Tenets article:
Ideas are worthless. Knowing what to do with those ideas – how to implement ideas, how to monetise them, how to drive them from an […]
Here is one school of thought you’re unlikely to have heard of, but it is one that you should definitely acquaint yourself with.
TRIZ (pronounced TREEZ) is the Russian acronym for ‘Theory of Inventive Problem Solving’. It is an algorithmic (that is, process-based) approach to problem solving and innovation that eschews the notion of […]
Contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurship is not grounded in random acts of inspiration.
Entrepreneurship is process-based. Certainly, there is often a “light bulb” moment of blinding insight that kick-starts an individual’s journey into entrepreneurship, but the path always follows the same, 6-step process:
Step 1. Identify an opportunity
As highlighted by Tenet […]
Interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald today that confirms the Dunbar number (which I referenced in an earlier post titled Social networks – chasm ahead!) is alive and well in the realm of social networks.
According to the article, which touches on the research of Will Reader, an evolutionary psychologist at Sheffield Hallam University:
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The first Tenet of Entrepreneurship posits that ANYONE can become an entrepreneur; that is, entrepreneurial skills, traits and tendencies are not innate, but rather are learned.
Entrepreneurial tendencies etc. are influenced by a number of factors, including:
Personal values/characteristics
It is impossible to provide a universal characterisation of the “entrepreneurial type”. Entrepreneurial […]
William Gibson, a science fiction author best known for his book Cyberpunk (in which he first coined the now familiar term “cyberspace”) wrote: “The street will find its own use for things”.
I have always taken that to mean that consumers, not manufacturers, are the final arbiters of how a technology or product will […]
Years ago I read an anecdote in a Jay Abraham book that had a formative effect on how I view innovation and opportunism. I managed to track it down:
Two men were mugged. Neither one was harmed.
Mugger No.1 took the man’s wallet and all his cash – $85. Mugger No.2 took the […]
Many years ago (2002 to be precise), I was moderator of an email discussion group called I-Entrepreneur (published by Adventive, now sadly no longer with us).
Given entrepreneurship is a subject close to my heart, I thought I’d trawl the archives for some ‘nuggets’ to re-post here, which I will do over the coming weeks.
I […]
History tells us that it is rare indeed that a single individual will come up with a totally new idea that leads to innovation (even Newton is purported to have needed a bit of help in the form of an apple). Innovation is more likely to arise from the recombination of existing ideas in novel ways […]