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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower Innovation

Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. This is a safe choice, of course - but is it the best choice? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. Is it the best path to profitability?

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The Innovative Mentor

IdeaScale

Leaders can mentor innovators through any of the practical business steps in the value creation process itself: Connecting to emerging market trends and identifying the most significant opportunities. When is it time to stick to an idea, and when is it time to listen to others and change course? Gaining customer insights.

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Innovation Accounting – The Second System – Podcast Transcript

IM Insights

Yeah , of course. Let’s put , put everything that we know together and make it really practical handbook so that everyone can do it right. How do you put it together in terms of making a of meaningful handbook ? But as soon as that hit max mass market , then stuff starts to move. Speaker: 0.

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Awaken Your Inner Venture Capitalist

IdeaScale

Venture capitalists are good at finding, choosing, and bringing the creative ideas of others to market. You evaluate whether ideas meet an important customer need and whether the ideas respond to a significant market opportunity. They may participate in the decisions about whether to stay the course or to pivot.

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11 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurial Thinking: why entrepreneurship can hardly be taught

Open Innovation EU

Whereas Schumpeter describes an entrepreneur as disequilibrative – destroying the pre-existing stage of the equilibrium ((Kirzner, 1999) – Kirzner chooses to describe the role of the entrepreneur as more equilibrative – entrepreneurs systematically displace disruptive conditions in order to create stabilized market conditions (Kirzner, 1999).