Every now and then you come across something that begs to be shared. This podcast is one of those moments:

Standford’s Entrepreneurship Corner Thought Leaders Series presents Tim O’Reilly

Yes, that’s Mr. Web 2.0 of O’Reilly Publishing fame. While I trust you’ll take the time to listen to Tim, these are the ideas that intrigued me. (Note: Some are quotes, some simply paraphrased, and some are O’Reilly quoting others.)

• Edwin Schlossberg: “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”
• Implicit context
• Embrace hardware as well as software
• Software above the level of a single device
• A system in the space between devices…not just a single application
• The Law of Conservation of Attractive Profits
• Software is a commodity. Data is the new currency of value.
• Rethink workflows and the experience
• Think differently about human / machine symbiosis
• We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.
• It’s a fairly hard AI problem to pick a traffic light out of a video stream. It’s a trivial AI problem to figure out if it’s red or green if you already know that it’s there.
• Reputation systems
• Close the loop
• What loops can you change? How can you make things smarter? And close the loop?
• Enable an economy
• Create more value than you capture
• Make other people successful
• Work on stuff that matters
• Idealism is good for your business
• Work on things that are hard. Find hard problems.
• Look a little sideways
• Code For America (http://CodeForAmerica.org)
• O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (http://OATV.com)
• It’s an ongoing process
• Find interesting problems that are relevant locally
• It’s about narrating your work in public
• Sometimes it takes a long time, keep at it
• Who do you want your customers to be
• Subscription is an important business model
• Sensors (hardware) are talking to software
• The Maker Movement
• Square enabled coffee shop

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