Brutal hill on mile 12 and 13, but the Hollywood Half Marathon was a great race.
buddies (Taken with instagram)
Highest in the country? (Taken with Instagram at Jack Colkers Union 76 Station)
Stealth Startup?
Has anyone else formed an allergy to the term “stealth startup” yet? What are you, building fighter planes?
Jokes aside, I know many reasonable people who stand on either side of the argument. I understand the temptation to maintain secrecy while you are “figuring things out”, but doesn’t the danger of living in an echo chamber - away from your future customers - dramatically limit your potential for getting it right?
Not to mention - your idea is most likely scribbled on the back of many other napkins at this very moment. Ideas are not monogamous. Ideas are imperfect and need unfettered feedback and nourishment. Ideas without execution are epic fails.
I can think of 3 things more important than your idea: execution, your passion for the problem your idea is trying to solve, and… execution.
If you still plan on keeping your super secret operation under wraps, then can you at least come up with a different label than stealth? How about clandestine? Or covert? Or… just keep it simple: secret?
I will say though, if you look at the list of antonyms for those words, you’ll see things like: candid, clear, concise, defined, explicit, frank, honest, open, public, revealed. Do you really want to be the opposite of that?
Customer-led Innovation
As I’m reading through “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton m. Christensen, I came across this in one of the footnotes.“The value network framework would predict that the innovations toward which the customers in Von Hippel’s study led their suppliers would have been sustaining innovations. We would expect disruptive innovations to have come from other sources.”
OK, so that’s not really that easy to understand out of context, but when you break it down, it reminded me of a quote from - yes, Henry Ford again :/
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
I’ve hit my Henry Ford quote quota for this lifetime, so I’ll move on now.
sometimes there are just no easy ways out (Taken with instagram)
Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re right.
husband, dad, runner, reader, solver, builder, entrepreneur, engineer, grateful (have some successes), optimistic (had more failures)
