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David Rusenko Points on Start ups

	1.	You can't succeed if you quit
	2.	You can't fail if you don't quit
	3.	By definition innovation seems wrong
	4.	If it's obvious a lot of people would be working on it
	5.	#1 Predictor of success is not intelligence but raw determination
	6.	How do you want the world to be?
	7.	#2 Make complicated things Simple
	8.	Make something people want
	9.	It's the most important thing to work on
	10.	Biggest risk is your idea is not what the market wants
	11.	Release something early and get feedback
	12.	Don't worry if someone will steal your idea
	13.	Is what you have what people want?
	14.	Get your idea out there early
	15.	Talk to a lot of people about your idea
	16.	Get feedback
	17.	Constantly iterate
	18.	Open to change
	19.	Make your way to that ideal product
	20.	Simplicity in everything
	21.	Core competancy
	22.	Headlines
	23.	Writing up a doc
	24.	Cut it in half 3 times
	25.	This will help convince people of your idea
	26.	#3 Focus
	27.	Harding thing
	28.	What is the one thing that achieves your next inflection point?
	29.	What is the next milestone.
	30.	Everyone's todo list is filled up
	31.	"Focus is a competitive advantage" - Joey Ive
	32.	Culture of innovation
	33.	#1 Prioritize by what you want to learn
	34.	Most people prioritize by cost * importance
	35.	Doesn't work for discontinuous innovation
	36.	Prioritize your list from what you'll learn most from
	37.	What are the big unknowns or big questions?
	38.	Learn new market insights to help prioritize
	39.	#2 See improvement in everything
	40.	Notice what's wrong in everyday life
	41.	His pet peeve is same as mine. Push sign, pull handle
	42.	What sucks about my life right now
	43.	Little frustrations
	44.	10 clicks instead of 8, then maybe get it down to 3
	45.	Maybe process shouldn't be here
	46.	Is this frustrating or annoying. Surefire that things can be better
	47.	Train yourself to go thru life finding how to improve everything
	48.	Collect these ideas
	49.	Smallest ideas can turn into the biggest opportunities
	50.	#3 Celebrate failure
	51.	What are you doing next after your failure?
	52.	Famous entrepreneurs are littered with things they tried but failed
	53.	You can only succeed by repeatedly taking risks
	54.	Taking a risk & failing is an accomplishment - you are statistically set up for success
	55.	You need to fail many times because there's a certain amount of luck in everything
	56.	By not being afraid to fail you take luck out of the equation
	57.	We learn most thru failure not success
	58.	Try out your ideas and fail to learn
	59.	Removing stigma from trying and failing is core to innovation
	60.	#4 Get Started
	61.	Things that sound so obvious are things that no one does
	62.	Very few people just get started
	63.	Instead of thinking and planning just put yourself out there
	64.	Bias towards action
	65.	"I'll look into it", bad
	66.	Let's schedule the meeting now
	67.	Don't need to have steps 1..99 figured out ahead of time
	68.	Not planning is not good
	69.	People have a tendency to plan too much
	70.	There are talkers and doers, be a doer
	71.	See a problem and fix it
	72.	It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission
	73.	David@weebly.com
	74.	What are you using as a procrastination tool
	75.	Ease of use created word of mouth growth
	76.	Hire people with passion for what they're working on, love what they do. positivity, really passionate about 1 thing.
	77.	What do you do when you're not at work? to see passion
	78.	Try out employees for 1 week
	79.	Get people to try it once to get feedback

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