The Truth About Innovation

What this short covers

The realities of innovation, touching upon the mindset and challenges faced by entrepreneurs and startup founders.

Transcript

When it comes to innovation, there's a big difference between what people think and actually what actually innovation is. And today, we're going to break it down. So, everyone loves to talk about innovation, but only a few really understand what actually it entails. On this gap, you can actually see the difference between perception and reality. Because what people actually think that innovation is is shipping product, building fast, breaking things. But that's not really what innovation is all about. This is what innovation really is. It's all about being able to listen to your customers and to iterate based on the data points that you're actually receiving. Testing fast so that you're able to understand what needs to be put in front of the people. And then also killing every single idea that you can as fast as possible so that you can do a pivot in the end is being able to build

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