“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.” This quote by Robert Pirsig utilized in an article about startup ideas by Paul Graham beautifully exemplifies the complexity, confusion, and curiosity enveloped in finding a great startup idea. Much like a masterwork painting, startup ideas… Continue reading How to Find Startup Ideas … As Told By Paintings
I recently read Clayton M. Christensen’s Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism, a collaboration with David Skok. Just like my title, i’ll try my best to sum it up and break it down into less words. The article has three parts, or key steps for advice. One: Always consider the audience first. Probably… Continue reading 3 Tips for Mastering Innovation in Journalism
For me personally, I have troubles generating ideas when the time comes to pitch them or to participate in an assignment or a project of some sort. So I was relieved when I read the article “How to Get Startup Ideas.” This article pointed out some pretty good points that I think are important for… Continue reading Want a Successful Startup? Satisfy an Audience
In thinking about successful startups and how to approach building a startup of your own, duplicating successes of juggernauts like Facebook may seem like a daunting task. Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen notes that successful businesses follow a simple principle: think of jobs that need to be done. In the article Breaking News, he notes… Continue reading Entrepreneurs Live in the Future and Disrupt the Past
Disclaimer: I read both of the assigned articles for this week but I was too enthralled with Paul Graham’s How to Get Startup Ideas article so this blog post is going to be exclusively talking about it. I’m not sure if I’ll be marked down for this but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.… Continue reading I Have No Ideas … But Now I Know Where to Look
In his article, “How to Get StartUp Ideas,” Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, said something I have not stopped thinking about it: “The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It’s to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.” Originally, this thought process seemed backwards to… Continue reading The Life of Startups: Where to Begin
Jobs-to-be-done and Start-Up Ideas go hand in hand I never really thought about this idea of jobs-to-be-done until it was mentioned in the reading, Mastering the Art of Disruptive Innovation in Journalism. According to the article, “The basic idea is that people don’t go around looking for products to buy. Instead, they take life as… Continue reading It’s all about jobs-to-be-done and Start-Up Ideas baby
We’re in the midst of a digital age, spawned by creativity in technology and a growing – sometimes concerning – reliance on technology as a society. Answer me this: when is the last time you drove somewhere without using Waze, Google Maps, or GPS? With that said, it isn’t surprising to a lot of people… Continue reading Digital ads are beginning to take over in media
As a journalism student, I’ve regularly had to ignore everyone from my grandparents to the person in front of me in line at the grocery store telling me journalism is dying. You can’t blame them. They are repeating what they have been hearing for years now: The media is dying. The fact is: The numbers… Continue reading Staying Relevant: News Media is Evolving Not Dying
Digital media has grown in all aspects of the world for some years now, but I never really knew the impact was as big as the Pew Research Center showed in its recent report. In each year digital media has grown in every area when it comes to advertising, the number of people viewing sites,… Continue reading Digital Media is Taking Over the World of Media
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