Steve Jobs always said he wasn’t ashamed to steal good ideas. I’ll show you, using many examples, how the greatest creators “stole” their great ideas in the world of art, movies, hardware and software. My goal is to demonstrate to you a new way of thinking and innovating so that you can go beyond the ordinary.

Steve Jobs a toujours dis qu’il n’avais pas honte de voler les bonnes idées. Je vais vous montrer à travers nombreuse exemple comment les plus grand créateur ont “volé” leurs grands idées dans le monde de l’art, des filmes, du hardware et le logiciel. Le but est de démontrer une nouvelle façon de penser et d’innover pour que vous puissiez aller au delà de l’ordinaire.

Here’s a thirty-minute presentation on How to Pick Winning Startup Teams I recently did at the annual angel investors https://volgaangels.com/en/ conference in Russia.

Here are three business development tips you’ll need to be successful: 1) make the f’ring phone call, 2) have something the client wants and 3) actually deliver on what you said you’d deliver. That’s right, sounds simple but hey that’s the fun of having the rubber hit the road.

Some say marketing, some say sales, some say business development. The sale happens where these three come together. Your marketing is the physical manifestation of your strategy; it’s the web site, brochures, videos and ads. Sales is the stuff inside the web site, brochures, videos and ads. And, business development, we’ll that’s a fancy term for when you get your butt out of the office and start knocking on a customer’s door.

Citizens banding together in anonymous fashion to protest against an organization, person or event will grow in the years to come. We are already seeing this as evidenced in last week’s successful DDoS attack against the MPPA and RIAA websites. Perhaps it is the beginning of the anti-Facebook, anti-MySpace, generation?

We’re so busy trying to conjure up the next Facebook that we’re missing Facebookx10 opportunities. So start innovating outside the box (e.g. the Fifty States, the EU).

How we phrase a question leads us to different insights and conclusions about products, markets, business plans and how we see things. You can ask: why do people love the iPhone? Or, you can ask: Do I love the Android? Do I hate AT&T? Do I hate Apple? With the new iPhone coming out and AT&T gouging it’s customers it’s time Sergey and Larry started asking: Why doesn’t anyone love me?