Genesis startups and the bias against the other guys.

Image via Wikipedia Recently I was eating a great breakfast cooked by my friend Alex and we were discussing startups and entrepreneurship in East Tennessee and we started discussing “original” startups vs buying existing businessnes or franchises and the bias in the start up community that exists against the later. Granted Alex and I both have experience [...]

What I’m thinking about

I’ve been using posterous as my way to save thoughs, ideas, statements, pictures, etc that I like. Until I figure out a sweet way to pull my posterous into this blog – I’d recommend you check it out at http://gavinbaker.posterous.com/

3 1/2 Keys to Design Thinking

I ran across this excellent video yesterday while checking out some post designthinking.ideo.com IDEO’s blog. The video is of Tim Brown, CEO IDEO answering 5 Questions at BusinessWeek. He talks a bit about IDEO and then shifts to talk about design thinking. He breaks design thinking down into 3 1/2 keys which I’ve listed below. [...]