One more quick rentoid spruik. We’ve just added a couple of cool things to rentoid.com:
The rockstar list
The quirky list
and the ‘surprise’ function
They’re all decided by members through a tagging system. We’re hoping they’ll add a bit of a social element and in turn unlock some of the gold nuggets we have hidden in our database of listings…. Click ‘em and be pleasantly surprised.
Don’t forget to tell startup blog your thoughts.
Sometimes a belief is more poignant than a policy. Here’s one of ours for rentoid.com
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What does your start up believe in?
Talking (via email) with a young entrepreneur last week, the text included the following. Thought it was worth sharing:
One of my philosophies is this: Launch now – improve later.
Perfection does not exist… only chasing it does.
Which means that all things are in a constant state of flux… Accept ‘flux’ and get to market.
A certain chapter in ‘Join the conversation’ struck a chord.
Chapter 5 – The Rise of the Prosumer.
To me this is the most compelling change in the business environment. JJ contends that business was so decidedly one-sided; lop-sided in favour of the supplier; the manufacturer; the marketer – that they completely overlooked the producing element.
Well JJ and startupblog agree that things have changed. The business world is now moving quickly from ‘producing stuff’ – to ‘providing infrastructure’. Infrastructure is becoming so cheap – consumers simply make their own ‘stuff’. We’re starting to consume the factors of production, not the factors from production – Prosumers.
Smart start ups ought to be thinking about what infrastructure we can provide, rather than what goods we can produce.
Our brains are computers. Just like computers we have both RAM and hard drive… even a bit of cache.
Everything humans build is a subconscious replication of organic machines. Which is why Articial Intelligence is moving in its current direction. It’s evolution baby.
So we need to command our brains the same way we do any computer. Hence, best practice is to only keep a few projects (programs) open at a time. If we don’t we’ll lose focus, get confused, freeze and have to be shut down! Just like all our PC’s do from time to time.
Every now again we need to assess our Mind RAM and just make sure we aren’t over stretching its resources. If we have to we should shut down some projects and focus. Just like our PC we’ll work faster – more efficiently.
If we have stuff open in our minds (old projects, tax returns, a mental diary) then we have to shift this stuff to a hard drive – whether it’s a notepad or PC doesn’t matter, just get it out of the RAM. Anything we shouldn’t be thinking about is RAM baggage. A mental cleanout is a must for high performance.
While watching entrepreneurs pitch their business earlier this week at the Pitch Club in Melbourne Australia, and colleague and I were disappointed at what some people believe to be innovation.
Shannon from Shannon says and I agreed that what many people call innovation is simply – different.
Here’s a clear delineation of the two which is a startup blog mashup of multiple dictionary definitions.
Different: unlike in form, quality, amount, or nature. Distinct or separate. Unusual or differing from others.
Innovation: a creation, new device or process. The result of study and or experimentation which improves the desired outcome / usage of said device, process or creation.
Sometimes we only need to understand the true meaning of our words to determine if we are ‘on track’.
There is a phrase I learned in College called ‘having a healthy disregard for the impossible’. That is a really good phrase. You should try and do things that most people would not.
….squint to see Larry….
Chances are we’ll still fail to do the impossible most times.
If we don’t try we are certain to fail every time.