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Surprisingly, many winners I spoke with had the same story about discovering the program -- not through blogs and podcasts or avid reading of Marginal Revolution, but through their friends. Once Tyler discovers a social circle enriched for talent, he expands and many members are quickly funded. The goal seems to be to hook an initial person, and then generate referrals. One can imagine Tyler’s search strategy as fishing in a well-chosen set of pools, not yet overfished from the mainstream. And when he hooks one fish, sometimes he also discovers a whole school.
Tyler Cowen Is the Best Curator of Talent in the World
kulesa.substack.com
Pick just about any industry and you can see the pattern. An entrepreneur begins a journey in an area where there is no market. He or she is forced to solve a series of problems, which results in an Innovation Stack. The Innovation Stack, combined with the first-mover advantage, combined with some other tricks we will discuss in the coming chapters, creates a world-changing enterprise.
The Innovation Stack
Jim McKelvey
Once we had hit upon this idea, we decided to explore it by producing concept videos for five different objects. Below you can see those videos, and notes about the principles that they exemplify under this new paradigm.
Could AR Glasses Let Us Install Apps Onto Any Object?
shopify.github.io
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