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Summary - The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) - Clayton M. Christensen
Disruptive technologies or innovations are innovations that upset the existing “order of things” in a particular industry.
Data mining, forecasting and bioinformatics competitions on Kaggle
Participate in competitions Kaggle is an arena where you can match your data science skills against a global cadre of experts in statistics, mathematics, and machine learning. Whether you're a world-class algorithm wizard competing for prize money or a novice looking to learn from the best, here's your chance to jump in and geek out, for fame, fortune, or fun. Kaggle is a platform for data prediction competitions that allows organizations to post their data and have it scrutinized by the world's best data scientists.
Description - Algorithmic Trading Challenge - Kaggle
The Algorithmic Trading Challenge is a forecasting competition which aims to encourage the development of new models to predict the stock market's short-term response following large trades. Contestants are asked to derive empirical models to predict the behaviour of bid and ask prices following such "liquidity shocks". Modelling market resiliency will improve trading strategy evaluation methods by increasing the realism of backtesting simulations, which currently assume zero market resiliency.In my recent post on the virtues of marketing simple products , a couple readers wrote in to write a really interesting questions – here’s a particularly interesting one by Mark Hull : How do you ensure that by simplifying your product too much, you are not losing a competitive edge by a lack of additional features/functions? Every product team struggles with this question- it seems like naturally adding more featureset adds more power to the product, yet at the same time adds complexity that makes it hard for new users to even get started. This is a common problem in the initial version of a product, because most of the time the first version doesn’t work, and the most obvious way to solve the problem is to just keep adding features until it starts to click. Yet does this ever work?
Don’t compete on features | Andrew Chen (@andrewchen)
6 Ways Social Media Helps Your Presentation Resonate Brian Solis
Guest post by Nancy Duarte, founder of Duarte , author of Resonate and Slide:ology. Follow her on Twitter and read her blog . Social media has forced presentations to become an interactive conversation. Presenters who embrace audience participation are connecting their audiences to their ideas in a more meaningful way.
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to learn to play the drums. I've always loved the drums. Whenever I listen to music, I hear the drums first. I can listen to a great jazz drummer like Art Blakey for hours on end. I'd give up almost anything to be as good as Glenn Kotche of Wilco.
Making Money | Small Business Advice from Jason Fried of Inc.com
It’s been 5 months from the first day we came up with the idea of Yotpo. We’ve gone through endless changes, happy moments and a lot of tough ones. If 5 months ago you told me our dream would become a user review distributor , I would tell you that you’re nuts. I know it sounds like a very short period of time, but when I look back, it seems almost as if we’ve been on this roller-coaster ride for 3-4 years … and boy, it’s been one hell of a ride. Actually it was quite fun to run in my head all the things we been through.
5 months, 45 startup lessons learned - TNW Entrepreneur
Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code « Steve Blank
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile.bubble
The sky is falling! Ever since the media’s Chicken Little response to the tremors in the financial markets, I’ve felt like shouting from the rooftops “now you know how it feels to be an entrepreneur!” This is a guest post on capitalizing on — vs. countering — the “entrepreneur’s disease” (manic depression) through 4 cyclical stages. This is done by pairing appropriate activities to specific — though not necessarily positive — emotional states… I first saw this presentation at an Entepreneurs’ Organization (EO) event in Omaha prior to my successful Warren Buffett quest at the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting.
Harnessing Entrepreneurial Manic-Depression: Making the Rollercoaster Work for You
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October 2010 (I wrote this for Forbes, who asked me to write something about the qualities we look for in founders. In print they had to cut the last item because they didn't have room.) 1. Determination
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How to Run Better Presentations & Improve Results
I sit through a lot of presentations. It’s usually people wanting to raise money and/or persuade me of something. Many of these are not as effective as they could be. 1.Entrepreneur and startup advisor Eric Ries yesterday wrote an impassioned blog post at Startup Lessons Learned asking startups and other companies to “stop lying on stage” about their accomplishments, and to be more honest about their failures. Among other things, he mentioned a blog post last week from Wesabe co-founder Marc Hedlund that went into detail about why the company failed and its competitor (Mint) succeeded. Now Ries’s plea has sparked another failure post-mortem, from Standout Jobs co-founder Ben Yoskovitz, who wrote a post today about his company’s shortcomings.