The Money Tree: A Story About Finding the Fortune in Your Own Backyard
by Chris Guillebeau · 6 Apr 2020 · 237pp · 66,545 words
forward, we’re going to restrict the $50 credit for use in the BuzzBucks™ online store, NOT in conversion to money like I first said. Fail fast, right? We have to keep the lights on over here! Kevin Quan Founder & CEO & COO * * * — From: Kevin Quan To: Social Media Team I heard that
Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics
by David Reed · 31 Aug 2021 · 168pp · 49,067 words
the working method across the enterprise, not just within data science and analytics. There will be no fear of failure, but rather a desire to fail fast in order to identify successful strategies. Ensuring engagement by the board with external innovators, especially those outside of the sector or domain, should be part
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is hard to apply such management when there is no predetermined process to follow. Data often relies on a degree of test-and-learn and fail fast in order to reach the appropriate end point. Even then, it is likely that a data set or a model will be subject to constant
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal · 26 Dec 2013 · 199pp · 43,653 words
‘Failure’ Culture of Startups Is Killing Innovation,” Wired (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/why-do-research-when-you-can-fail-fast-pivot-and-act-out-other-popular-startup-cliches. 10. “The Power of User Narratives: Jack Dorsey (Square),” video, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture (Stanford University, 2011
Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours
by Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen and Franck Nouyrigat · 8 Nov 2011 · 179pp · 42,006 words
capital firms Bootstrapping Braindump Brainstorming. See also Scrum boards Branding Business cards Business ideas braindump brainstorming. See also Scrum boards communicating existence of versus execution “failing fast” concept feedback. See also Customer feedback; Feedback idea validation. See also Minimum viable product (proof of concept) passion. See Passion pitching. See Sixty second pitch
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) Nuvention program risk mitigation Sunday presentations task allocation team work time constraints and need for fast pace value of External growth leap Facilitators Fail Conferences Failing fast concept Failure as part of process Failure rate of startups FashionSpace Feedback customers. See Customer feedback in experiential education Startup Weekend participants First Round Capital
Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson · 5 Oct 2010 · 298pp · 81,200 words
and mutation rates, see her essay “Microbiology and Evolution: Modulating Mutation Rates in the Wild” in Science. For more on the “fail fast” movement, see Doug Hall’s BusinessWeek essay “Fail Fast, Fail Cheap” and Timothy Prestero’s “Better by Design.” CHAPTER 6: EXAPTATION Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press is recounted in
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: Dutton, 1974. Guier, William H., and George C. Weiffenbach. “Genesis of Satellite Navigation.” Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest 19, no. 1 (1998): 15. Hall, Doug. “Fail Fast, Fail Cheap.” BusinessWeek (June 25, 2007). http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_26/b4040436.htm_. Harkness, Deborah E. The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and
The Data Journalism Handbook
by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers and Liliana Bounegru · 9 May 2012
week to produce, but on longer projects we work in week-long iterations, and show our work to stakeholders (reporters and editors usually) every week. “Fail fast” is the mantra. If you’re doing it wrong, you need to know as soon as possible, especially when you’re coding on a deadline
How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
by Elizabeth Day · 3 Apr 2019 · 284pp · 95,029 words
away that were no good, as failures, I just look at them as part of the process.’ To this day, Frey said, his mantra is: ‘Fail fast. Fail often.’ It’s a mantra that holds great weight in the (male-dominated) entrepreneurial world too, where risks have to be taken in order
Bulletproof Problem Solving
by Charles Conn and Robert McLean · 6 Mar 2019
and the capability trajectory come to hand. The end goal or its timing is then altered to reflect the market and competitive realities. Agile development, failing fast, and sprints are the hallmarks of this approach to strategic problem solving. The Ripper Group shark‐spotting algorithm was discussed in Chapter 6. Ripper is
Designing for the Social Web
by Joshua Porter · 18 May 2008 · 201pp · 21,180 words
has several effects: . Builds goodwill . Shows people that you’re there and improving . Gets people coming back often . Lets you fail fast A major benefit of fast iteration is you also fail fast. Failing fast means you invest less time in the things that don’t work. If you find what doesn’t work quickly, then
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you quickly take action to turn it into something that does work. Ironically, teams that fail fast improve faster than those who try to get everything right at every iteration. The reason is simple: Teams trying to get everything right fail as
Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations
by Nandan Nilekani · 4 Feb 2016 · 332pp · 100,601 words
shoestring budgets—teams that include technologists, social activists, people who have built successful businesses, domain experts and bureaucrats. That we have to try often and fail fast without getting bogged down by the armchair experts and critics ready to pounce on the first sign of failure. That it is easier to find
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
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Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea Into a Global Business
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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
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The Soul of Wealth
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The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs
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Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI
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The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
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Testing Extreme Programming
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
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Innovation and Its Enemies
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The Internet Is Not the Answer
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Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
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The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
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The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
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Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
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Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
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Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
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Shoe Dog
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Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less
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Haskell Programming: From First Principles
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Galileo's Dream
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Relevant Search: With Examples Using Elasticsearch and Solr
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How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance
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The autobiography of Malcolm X
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European Founders at Work
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Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley
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Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs
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Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do
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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
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