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Before You Try To Disrupt An Industry, You Might Try Actually Working In It...
Lee Lin thought his startup, RentHop, could “automate away” real estate brokers. Then he tried being one for a month. Lee Lin is the cofounder of RentHop, which helps apartment seekers cut through the...
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The best startup ideas come from solving problems
If you look at the way successful founders have had their ideas, it’s generally the result of some external stimulus hitting a prepared mind I recently read a great piece by Paul Graham that talked...
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How to Fix the Solution
“Sometimes, to fix the problem, you have to fix the solutions first.” Great innovators often experience an “a-ha” moment–a moment when they finally stumble upon a solution to a problem. For Rosanne...
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What entrepreneurs can learn from artists
Like art, true innovation has the potential to make our lives better. It connects and reconnects us with deeply held truths and fundamental human desires; meets complexity with simple, elegant...
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Human intelligence: Cleverer still
Geniuses are getting brighter. And at genius levels of IQ, girls are not as far behind boys as they used to be SCIENCE has few more controversial topics than human intelligence—in particular, whether...
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Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us
“Innovative solutions are generally built upon an obscure feature of your problem.” The most famous cognitive obstacle to innovation is functional fixedness — an idea first articulated in the 1930s by...
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The Core Traits of the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Based on our research into the mindset of today’s entrepreneurial leaders, Ernst & Young has developed a model of what comprises an entrepreneurial leader: At the nucleus of the model are the...
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Do our cognitive biases help or hinder us as entrepreneurs? As leaders?
“Some social psychologists believe our cognitive biases help us process information more efficiently, especially in dangerous situations. Still, they lead us to make grave mistakes.” The human brain is...
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Hal Gregersen on what makes a successful entrepreneur
Hal Gregersen is an author and professor of innovation and leadership at graduate business school Insead. What follows are edited excerpts from his discussion at the Unleashing Innovation conference....
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The Zen of Entrepreneurship
Rizwan Virk is an entrepreneur, author, investor, and film-maker. He was co founder of Gameview Studios, maker of the popular Tap Fish mobile game, which was downloaded over 30 million times, and was...
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