Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Keep your eyes and mind open to free sources of innovation in every ecosystem, including open-source software, university cooperative programs, and the many incubators and accelerators supported by volunteers and communities. Be sure to hire and cultivate new talent with the right mindset.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2015

This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Lean startup. This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a few years ago, primarily for software and web applications. A popular phrase heard in this environment is “rinse and repeat.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Lean startup. This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a couple of years ago, primarily for software and web applications.

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