Petr Bambasek

Mostly posts about entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. Enjoys exploring the outdoors, taking photos and trying new things.

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His entire post is worth reading (go read it), but the key part is that many startups fail because they never reach product-market fit. Instead, they put the priority of their attention not on the market, but on the team or the product.

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This post is all about the only thing that matters for a new startup.

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In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that he carries a little sheepishly, as if it belonged to someone else—has described himself as both “deeply, de

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Ideas come to those with promiscuous curiosity and chronic attraction to problems.

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A 1985 interview between Steve Jobs and "a magazine people read for the articles." :) It is almost surreal to see how much on point Jobs was on so many levels.

Here is just one sample excerpt from one of the many great moments of this interview:

Jobs: … This will change: Computers will be essential in most homes.

Playboy: What will change?

Jobs: The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people—as remarkable as the telephone.

Playboy: Specifically, what kind of breakthrough are you talking about?

Jobs: I can only begin to speculate. We see that a lot in our industry: You don’t know exactly what’s going to result, but you know it’s something very big and very good.

Playboy: Then for now, aren’t you asking home-computer buyers to invest $3000 in what is essentially an act of faith?

Jobs: In the future, it won’t be an act of faith. The hard part of what we’re up against now is that people ask you about specifics and you can’t tell them. A hundred years ago, if somebody had asked Alexander Graham Bell, “What are you going to be able to do with a telephone?” he wouldn’t have been able to tell him the ways the telephone would affect the world. He didn’t know that people would use the telephone to call up and find out what movies were playing that night or to order some groceries or call a relative on the other side of the globe. …  

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DJI – Introducing the Inspire 1

Everything you need for aerial film making integrated into an elegant ready-to-fly system. #want

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I grew to become friends with Libba and Gifford, frequently staying at their home. I noticed that Gifford worked all the time. Other than short breaks to play disc golf or to participate in drumming circles, I never noticed Gifford partaking in what I then considered relaxation activities: watching television or just sitting around doing nothing. I asked him about this. He told me that when he was doing what he loved to do, then it was enjoyable. The joy of accomplishing something worthwhile exceeded the joy he received from more mundane activities like passively consuming entertainment.

from the article How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything by William Hertling

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The Wisdom Of Woz

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak shares nine tips for starting companies, solving problems and finding happiness.

Most of these are nothing new under the sun, but solid pieces of advice nevertheless. Check out the linked article for the following nine nuggets of Wozdom:

Be curious.

Dream big. 

Stretch yourself.

Don’t make stuff just to make money. 

An idea on paper isn’t worth much.

Be forgiving.

Take your problems to bed with you.

Never stop simplifying.

Don’t take things too seriously.

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Data abounds in the world of interaction design. If an analyst wants to know which part of an app is drawing the most attention, or what color is most likely to make someone click a button, there are plenty of tools to help run experiments, multivariate tests, or make minor modifications.

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In an article published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, University of California at San Diego behavioral scientist Ayelet Gneezy and University of Chicago business professor Nicholas Epley tracked people’s responses to three types of promises: broken ones, kept ones,

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In a continuation of our 2014 99U Conference recaps, we bring you more insights from our yearly gathering focused on idea execution. In today’s edition, our speakers all succeeded by using entirely different approaches to the open-ended challenge of starting (and maintaining) a business.

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CANNES, France—Faced with a deluge of diverse ideas from aspiring creatives, Rei Inamoto had an enjoyable but incredibly daunting task: select the world's best student work to be honored at Cannes.

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Retailers are making breakthroughs in understanding their customers’ minds.

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John Seifert, the chairman of Ogilvy & Mather North America, shakes his head.

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Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was available? All words; short ones, cool ones. All you had to do was ask. It didn’t even cost anything to claim. This grand opportunity was true for years.

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