Tyler Shadick

“Practice telling the story of your startup. Write it down so the words are succinct. Make each one count. Create a 30 second, 3 minute, and 30 minute version.”
― Bill Woolsey, Seven Steps to Start: A Sacramental Entrepreneur's Guide To Launching Startups That Thrive

“We now have the chance to transcend the limitations of the experience curve. The more participants one adds to carefully designed creation spaces—and the more the interactions that occur between and among them—the greater the chances are that everybody participating will get better quicker at whatever it is they’re doing. Rather than each new increment of experience contributing less and less—as in the experience curve—each new participant in a creation space makes all the previous participants—and interactions between them—incrementally more valuable. A virtuous cycle begins to emerge as more and more people connect with each other.”
― John Seely Brown, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

“True innovation does not happen when we control creativity,” Shai wrote in 2005, “but when we challenge, create shared vision, and passionately pursue excellence.”3”
― John Seely Brown, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

“According to Hidary, most people become too dependent on one facet of their lives. And when one facet takes up 80 percent of somebody’s total exposed surface area, they tend to become defensive around it, protective. They become “experts.” They treat what they know as a stock rather than a flow, and they tend to isolate themselves from flows of new knowledge and the people creating them.”
― John Seely Brown, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion