The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It’s understanding who to listen to and why.
28th February 2012
Optimizing for happiness
Bootstrapping + idea that makes you happy
Excellent story by (@mojombo) Tom Preston-Werner at Startup School 2010. How github was built without private founding.
(Source: tom.preston-werner.com)
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Don’t miss this: extraordinary storyteller David Bornstein a former software programmer who changed job to help others and seek happiness.
Check out his great project Dowser (who’s solving what and how) as they describe:
At Dowser, we present the world through a ‘solution frame,’ rather than a ‘problem frame.’ We’re interested in the practical and human elements of social innovation: Who’s solving what and how. We want to know how people come up with ideas, how they put them into practice, how they pay the bills, and what fuels their fire.
David is author of the book “Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know” (written with Susan Davis), offers an overview of the field and explores where it may be heading. And is also the author of “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas,” which was described by The New York Times as “must reading” for “anyone who cares about building a more equitable and stable world.”
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