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The Innovator's Dilemma

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Lenny’s Podcast121 min

How to be more innovative

Sam Schillace · Jan 11, 2024
Key learnings
  • Treat 'why not' objections as signals to examine, and answer them with 'what if' questions about how far an idea could go if it…
  • Judge disruption by polarization: if people either love or hate something, it is more likely disruptive than something met with…
  • Make experiments cheap and fast so you can test ideas quickly, since you will almost always be wrong about the product until you…
SVPG · Marty CaganApr 23, 2011

Preparing For War

Apr 23, 2011

Marty Cagan argues that 'The Innovator's Dilemma' describes a symptom of large-company decline rather than its root cause. Drawing on Ben Horowitz's 'Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO' framing, he contends that startups are…