Slide 1: How To Succeed In Innovation
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By: Vadim Kotelnikov Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach 1000ventures.com, 1000advices.com, Fun4Biz.com
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Humorous Business Plan
Composed by: Vadim Kotelnikov Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach 1000ventures.com
Overview
Values being created
"Nearly 100% of innovation – from business to politics – is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are."
– Tom Peters
"The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again."
– Al Goodman
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Humorous Business Plan
Composed by: Vadim Kotelnikov Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach 1000ventures.com
PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
Targeted market
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
– Oscar Wilde
"I like nonsense – it wakes up the brain cells."
– Dr. Seuss
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
– Fred Allen
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Humorous Business Plan Brief history
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
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– Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
– H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
– Popular Mechanics, 1949
"The Internet? We are not interested in it."
– Bill Gates, 1993
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Humorous Business Plan
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PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
Milestones completed and future plans
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.“
– Albert Einstein
"All great discoveries are made by mistake."
– Young's Law
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
– Charles H. Duel
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Humorous Business Plan
Composed by: Vadim Kotelnikov Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach 1000ventures.com
PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
Innovation Management Team
"Few great men would have got past personnel."
– Paul Goodman
"Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.“
– Peter Drucker
"The leaders say: "Let's be more innovative." The staff says: "Bravo. When do we start?" The mid-level managers say: "Wait a minute, let's think about that. What about… and …? Have you REALLY thought it through? Does this mean I have to change?""
– Claude Legrand
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Humorous Business Plan
Composed by: Vadim Kotelnikov Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach 1000ventures.com
PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
Growth Strategy
Product
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones." – John Cage "If you understand it, it's not innovation." – Vadim Kotelnikov "If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts."
– Benedict Spinosa
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Humorous Business Plan Operational plan
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
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PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
– Pablo Picasso
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.“
– Albert Einstein
"The secret to inventiveness is doing many diverse tings at a time – continually and chaotically."
– Vadim Kotelnikov
"The ultimate inspiration is the deadline."
– Nolan Bushnell
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Humorous Business Plan Development risk
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"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."
– P.B. Medawar
Risk management strategy
"We all agree our theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" – Niels Bohr "The best way to kill creativity in a team is letting the boss speak first."
– Victoria Holtz
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Humorous Business Plan Growth risk
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"The more you measure and motivate based on innovation, the less likely you will have a truly innovative culture."
– Stephen Shapiro
Risk management strategy
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
– Woody Allen
"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate."
– Thomas J. Watson
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Humorous Business Plan Other risks
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PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
"No one except lucky owners of coffee grounds can predict the future.“
– Vadim Kotelnikov
"Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out."
– The Schalkner Converse to Hoare's Law of Large Problems
Risk management strategy
"To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer."
– Paul Ehrlich
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Humorous Business Plan
Composed by: Vadim Kotelnikov Founder, Ten3 Business e-Coach 1000ventures.com
Markets
Analysis
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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
– Oscar Wilde
"People buy more weight loss books/diets (tools) than all other books, yet people are fatter than ever. Why? Most diets do not address the psychological reasons (mindset) for eating. The same holds true for innovation."
– Stephen Shapiro
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun."
– Ralph Nader
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Humorous Business Plan Competition
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"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
– Howard Aiken
Marketing strategy
"Everything popular is wrong."
– Oscar Wilde
"You can have any color you want, as long as it's black."
– Henry Ford
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."
– R. Serling
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Humorous Business Plan
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PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
Funds Required and Uses
"Nothing ever get build on schedule or within budget."
– Cheops's Law
"Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without."
– James R. Schlesinger
"The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake."
– Murphy's Law
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Humorous Business Plan
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PERSONAL SUCCESS 360 (Ten3 Minicourse)
Financial Projections
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
– Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
"To make a million, start with $900,000."
– Morton Shulman
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Humorous Business Plan
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