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This article, "The Shape of Math to Come",talks about applying topology to large data sets. https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20131004-the-mathema... Might stimulate your thinking.

http://roberthackerbooks.com/ Book develops my thinking on a business model for high growth companies. Concepts are illustrated in part by my experience building a billion dollar company.

Now considering a solution that involves a class of both undergrads and Masters level students. Will see if the bureaucrats will allow that.

Will not engage in the debate on teach/born entrepreneurs.

I would have quoted Piaget and Papert on learning.

The point on willingness to change is in fact the real issue. Trying to determine if the motivations are correctly assessed.

I think you need to make better use of the screen real estate. Having the feature examples below the break (Chrome, Mac) is not very effective. This app is in a crowded space (market) and I would move what you think is the distinctive features to the top and make them eye catching. Maybe thinking in vertical stripes with product, validation and features each having a column would be more impactful.

My eye goes to the gmail logo which I do not think is the message you want to communicate first.

I think you underestimate the innovation in education considering Kahn Academy, the UN, MIT courseware online, etc. The innovation is in content and a more student-centric approach to learning.

The old model of a school building and a teacher "push the content" has changed little since 1800 despite the advances in technology. Just relax the assumption that there has to be a physical school and the innovation opportunities become apparent. More thoughts at http://sophisticatedfinance.typepad.com/sophisticated_financ...

This article is superb in response to the question and also to helping non-business people understand how their disciplines apply to business/business decisionmaking

This essay by CW Hamming may be of interest. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.htm... Also, the work of James Austin, professor at Harvard Medical School on successful research. Marvin Minsky, legendary MIT professor, is also interested in the same subject but I don't have a reference. The "Random Walks of George Polya" is also related to the subject. Stanford math professor who specialized in techniques to solve advanced math problems.

This subject would perhaps make a great forum or separate website.

1. Don't buy Nokia; waste of money and no help in sorting out a mobile strategy 2. Port CE to ARM as soon as possible before the entire tablet/phone market is lost 3. Focus on the enterprise market where you potentially contribute value added and move out of consumer software apps which will all be free, web-based in five years 4. Focus all software development on smaller code that assumes no hard drive and 4GB or less of flash memory in the device; really understand products like Dropbox as a means to see a software strategy going forward 5. Abandon the strategy where all the software (Office, IE, etc) only runs on Windows

Apologies

The intent is clearly to appear corporate. Given the start up nature of the book it will be interesting to see other responses.

What would you to demo here

Personally I like the Startup School posts much better than the startup company stories. The companies look like a lot of me-too concepts and you don't explain why you picked them or why their strategy or feature set is better. Blogs work when people present new ideas or ideas that were not easy to discover. Ideas not companies. I'll be using the "lifecycle of an idea" in my entrepreneurship class on Monday. Maybe it will generate some readers for you.

From personal experience I would recommend taking the equivalent of a high school language course to understand the logic of a language and some vocabulary and then moving to a remote location to work where nobody speaks English. Andean mining camps really helped my Spanish to become fluent.

Counting is not one of the 3 commandments of finance ;)

I think the parallel to scientific hypothesis is an accurate description of entrepreneurship. It is the process that I teach in my undergraduate course, without identifying it. My only caution is that focusing on the future of the market can lead one to focus on product features and not customer needs. Customer need drives the market and gives one the basis for the evolving market.