March 2011
5 posts
WatchThe Breakup Letter is a design research tool that Smart Design uses to understand the emotional connection between people and their products, services, and experiences.
At IIT’s 2010 Design Research Conference, Smart Design asked participants of their workshop to test out this tool by writing and reciting a Breakup Letter. Each participant took 15 minutes to write a letter and then...
“What do you see that the rest of us are blind to?”
– Tim Westergreen (Founder of Pandora), during his Keynote at Stanford Graduate School of Business Conference on Entrepreneurship last week.
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly...”
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Startup Insights from Chris Mitchell, Audio...
One of the most inspiring session I attended last week is a short discussion with Chris Mitchell, founder of Audio Analytic. Chris is one of the Kauffman Global Scholars alumni who chooses to return to U.K. to start his venture locally. Other than the usual tips such as recruit the best engineers to make your ideas happen and to choose carefully which the best marketplace for your product is, I...
February 2011
6 posts
“Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Requiring a lot of...”
– Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
Cat: "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
Alice: "I don't much care where.."
Cat: "Then it doesn't matter which way you go."
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