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Jeff,
I couldn't agree with your concern more. So far, I've been very fortunate to mentor, advise, counsel and invest in startups that 'get' both a Big Idea that they validate/experiment leanly (new word!). I am a partner in an early-stage VC firm and also own of my own business as well as teach business model innovation to seniors applying for a big fellowship/grant at Oberlin College and mentor/advise the startup/entrepreneur programs and the startups that come out of my alma mater, Brown University, I've seen a lot of the Big Idea tested with Lean Methodology a lot - which is great - so perhaps its starting to gain traction! It is an important, and for some, subtle distinction - gets to teaching people to love and live with paradox....
Deb
Big Idea vs. Lean Idea
“Seems niche. How many people want to tell everyone randomly what they’re doing and how many really want to look at it?” - My entry for Twitter, as recorded in early 2007. This entry in my "deal flow" journal records my first, inauspicious impressions of Twitter when I initially heard about i...
Jackson Pollack is 1 of my most favorite artists in the world - there is so much to see in his paintings - to dream and imagine - yet the underlying relationship to fractals remains a mystery...
Foundation...
The basis on which a thing stands; an underlying support. If you sit in front of a Jackson Pollack painting in a gallery long enough, you're bound to hear the following: "I could do that." Of course, it's never true. First of all, these people don't ever try to do anything like what they're...
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