Posts by Geoff Nesnow
50 Ways a Driverless Future Could Impact (almost) Everything
What could happen when cars and trucks drive themselves? After recently of watching Ryan Chin, CEO of Optimus Ride speak at an MIT event about autonomous vehicles, Geoff Nesnow shares these 50 fascinating thoughts about what a driverless future will be like.
Read MoreWhat if We Listened to All of Our Stakeholders?
For the past year, I’ve been working with a Baptist minister, Rev. Jeffrey Brown, to help fund and scale his proven approach to violence reduction. Rev. Brown has spent the past 25+ years helping Boston and 21 other communities reduce violence. His TED talk tells the story about the The Boston Miracle — a 29 consecutive month period…
Read More3 Acts of Courage (for innovation)
My MBA start-up competition @hultbiz just finished. My best teams were awesome. Every team demonstrated plenty of inspiration and perspiration, but the best teams were willing to do a few very uncomfortable things that the average teams weren’t.
Read MoreMarketing Lessons from the 2016 Presidential Campaign?
Geoff Nesnow finds it very interesting to look at the presidential race as a study in good and bad product marketing. Here are some examples.
Read MoreThe Paradox of Innovation
Innovation is all about people. The paradox of innovation is that people who are great at operating existing businesses are pretty bad at building new ones
Read MoreTop 12 Traits of Successful Startup Founders
What traits to successful startup founders share? It seems to be more than just brains and hard work. This is a top 12 list of the common characteristics I’ve observed in successful founders (and leaders).
Read MoreCalling All Innovators: Top 10 tips for building and delivering a great pitch
Top 10 tips to building and delivering a great product or business pitch for every innovator
Read MoreThe Art of the Survey: why companies often build the wrong products
When done well, surveys can often answer important questions and occasionally provide some real insights. But, most surveys aren’t very good.
Read MoreRelationship Builiding: I will NEVER waste your time
Geoff Nesnow shares food for thought, aka a ‘brilliant approach’ to making and building great relationships.
Read MoreLetting Entrepreneurs "off-leash"
Are you prepared to let your entrepreneurs off leash? Will they behave, get things done and come when you call them?
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