An interesting talk on how empathy has changed our perception about our environment. And how empathy is wired into our brains through mirror neurons. Finally, the animation ends on how our empathy can broaden our identity so that it “extends to think of the human race as fellow sojourners, creatures as fellow beings and the planet as our community” so that we truly can become an empathic civilization.
a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.
A good post by Steve Blank on what a Business Model is and other good stuff that any business person should be cognizant of.
How Does Customer Development, Agile Development and Lean Startups Fit?
The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model. Agile Development is the way startups quickly iterate their product as they learn. A Lean Startup is Eric Ries’s description of the intersection of Customer Development, Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. (This methodology does for startups what the Toyota Lean Production System did for cars.)
http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-principles/
A good article on improving your written work….
http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/silverman/2009/02/10-business-words-to-ban.html
