His candid advice makes Startup Myths and Models an ideal guide for those readers just embarking on the startup life and those looking for their next adventure.
Author: Rizwan Virk
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231550871
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 264
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Budding entrepreneurs face a challenging road. The path is not made any easier by all the clichés they hear about how to make a startup succeed—from platitudes and conventional wisdom to downright contradictions. This witty and wise guide to the dilemmas of entrepreneurship debunks widespread misconceptions about how the world of startups works and offers hard-earned advice for every step of the journey. Instead of startup myths—legends spun from a fantasy version of Silicon Valley—Rizwan Virk provides startup models—frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. In snappy prose with savvy pop-culture and real-world examples, Virk recasts entrepreneurship as a grand adventure. He points out the pitfalls that appear along the way and offers insights into how to avoid them, sharing the secrets of founding a startup, raising money, hiring and firing, when to enter a market and when to exit, and how to value a company. Virk combines lessons learned the hard way during his twenty-five years of founding, investing in, and advising startups with reflections from well-known venture capitalists and experts. His candid advice makes Startup Myths and Models an ideal guide for those readers just embarking on the startup life and those looking for their next adventure.
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Author: Rizwan Virk
Publisher: Bayview Books, LLC
ISBN:
Category: Computers
Page: 324
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The Simulation Hypothesis, by best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist and Silicon Valley video game designer Rizwan Virk, is the first serious book to explain one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time. Riz is the Executive Director of Play Labs @ MIT, a video game startup incubator at the MIT Game Lab. Drawing from research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, and referencing both speculative fiction and ancient eastern spiritual texts, Virk shows how all of these traditions come together to point to the idea that we may be inside a simulated reality like the Matrix. The Simulation Hypothesis is the idea that our physical reality, far from being a solid physical universe, is part of an increasingly sophisticated video game-like simulation, where we all have multiple lives, consisting of pixels with its own internal clock run by some giant Artificial Intelligence. Simulation theory explains some of the biggest mysteries of quantum and relativistic physics, such as quantum indeterminacy, parallel universes, and the integral nature of the speed of light. Recently, the idea that we may be living in a giant video game has received a lot of attention: “There’s a one in a billion chance we are not living in a simulation” -Elon Musk “I find it hard to argue we are not in a simulation.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson “We are living in computer generated reality.” -Philip K. Dick Video game technology has developed from basic arcade and text adventures to MMORPGs. Video game designer Riz Virk shows how these games may continue to evolve in the future, including virtual reality, augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, and quantum computing. This book shows how this evolution could lead us to the point of being able to develop all encompassing virtual worlds like the Oasis in Ready Player One, or the simulated reality in the Matrix. While the idea sounds like science fiction, many scientists, engineers, and professors have given the Simulation Hypothesis serious consideration. Futurist Ray Kurzweil has popularized the idea of downloading our consciousness into a silicon based device, which would mean we are just digital information after all. Some, like Oxford lecturer Nick Bostrom, goes further and thinks we may in fact be artificially intelligent consciousness inside such a simulation already! But the Simulation Hypothesis is not just a modern idea. Philosophers like Plato have been telling us that we live in a “cave” and can only see shadows of the real world. Mystics of all traditions have long contended that we are living in some kind of “illusion “and that there are other realities which we can access with our minds. While even Judeo-Christian traditions have this idea, Eastern traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism make this idea part of their core tradition — that we are inside a dream world (“Maya” or illusion, or Vishnu’s Dream), and we have “multiple lives” playing different characters when one dies, continuing to gain experience and “level up” after completing certain challenges. Sounds a lot like a video game! Whether you are a computer scientist, a fan of science fiction like the Matrix movies, a video game enthusiast, or a spiritual seeker, The Simulation Hypothesis touches on all these areas, and you will never look at the world the same way again!
See also Startup revolution Business models agile development, 88, 109–112,
114–117 customer development ... means of connecting with others, 23–25, 128 myths of entrepreneurship, perpetuating, 138, 139 traditional business model, 88,
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Author: Marc Nager
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781118105092
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 208
View: 853
Tested principles for transforming an idea into a fully operational company Startup Weekend—the organization behind 54-hour events where developers, designers, marketers, and startup enthusiasts come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and create startups—has spawned both a global initiative in entrepreneurship as well as numerous successful startups. Startup Weekend, the book, contains best practices, lessons learned, and empowering examples derived from the organization's experiences for individuals and small organizations to follow as they launch businesses. Each of the key beliefs outlined has been tested by Startup Weekend and has yielded powerful results. The principles described in each chapter will give any business idea a greater chance for success. Chapter topics include trust and empowerment, flexible organizational structures, the power of experiential education, action-based networking, and much more Describes consequences for startup development as entrepreneurs and founders begin doing much more, even faster Profiles successful Startup Weekend companies, including two powerful examples: Memolane, an application that captures a user's online life in one timeline making it easy for users to travel back in time and relive memories; and Foodspotting, a mobile and desktop app that allows users to find and share the foods they love Apply these simple actionable principles to launch your own startup revolution.
Author: Institute of Management SciencesPublish On: 1987
analysis , and the strengths and weaknesses of an actual startup company . ...
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be used to measure how much influence plays a part in policy development of ...
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Author: Stephanie Jones
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: STANFORD:36105004030727
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 280
View: 711
Over 100 British executives have contributed to this study of what it's really like to work for a Japanese company. Media beliefs about the Japanese in Britain suggest that they are obsessed with long-term planning and concensus decision-making, that all the bosses are Japanese, that all decisions are made in Tokyo, and that uniforms and exercises are compulsory. Dr Jones' findings question these 'myths' arguing that the Japanese have shown a remarkable adaptability to local conditions.
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Author: Jeffry A. Timmons
Publisher:
ISBN: UCSC:32106018529856
Category: Entrepreneurship
Page: 700
View: 395
Timmons & Spinelli's, New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship For The 21st Century, 6/e is a perforated paperback text that covers the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it and starting again. Through text, case studies, and hands-on exercises, the book guides students in discovering the concepts of entrepreneurship and the competencies, skills, know-how and experience that are sufficient to pursue different entrepreneurial opportunities. The authors recognize that there is no substitute for actually starting a company, but believe that it is possible to expose students to many of the vital issues and immerse them in key learning experiences.
Angels (Ang) are high-networth individuals who invest their own money at early
stages of a startup's life. ... The Lure and Myths of Venture Capital Venture
Capital (Vcs) funding involves institutional investments by limited partners (
usually wealthy ... It involves running various scenario models on your company (
e.g. discounted cash flow) to come up with a few different projections to help set
the long-term ...
Author: Steve Fisher
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780071832373
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 288
View: 687
Filled with infographics, visuals, and case studies—a vibrant, practical guide to creating a winning business model for any startup The Startup Equation leads you step by step through the decisions and data to find your perfect startup model. You'll learn how to identify your “entrepreneurial type” and follow the book’s visual roadmap to building your own successful business plan for your unique dream. The book provides the blueprint for not only understanding the startup economy, but the challenges and opportunities for every type of new business. Steve Fisher is co-founder of the Revolution Factory, a global network that funds, builds, and launching new products. He is also co-founder of The Revolution Institute, a global nonprofit that promotes social good. Ja-Naé Duane is a speaker, strategist, social scientist, artist, creative economist, and author of How to Start Your Business with $100.
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biotechnology industry ' ...
Author: Dundar F. Kocaoglu
Publisher: Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
Descriptors—Decision Making, 'Educational Planning, Females, 'Game Theory,
Males, 'Management Games, Models, Nontraditional ... These myths regarding
women in NTOs are described: certain jobs are only for men or women, women
lack strength for "men's work," ... (Chapters 3-8 conclude with a startup checklist.
A natural framework to deal with these questions is that of integrated inventory models ( buyervendor coordination ) . ... of this study is to analyze and gain
insight into the vendor - buyer relationships , and test some common JIT myths
regarding optimal lot sizes ... The beginning of a cycle is the moment of
production startup .
Evaluation of startup policies in simulation experiments . ... His interests lie in
applied operations research , with emphasis in stochastic models , especially the
probabilistic and ... Some myths and common errors in simulation experiments .
... on the evidence of the energy and commitment of the staff , the startup support
of the Singapore Arts Council and other ... As an exhibition , " Volume and Form "
is a unique hybrid of the several current models for a large art show . ...
installation by Tang Da Wu based on a series of community workshops and
focusing on myths and stories surrounding the banana tree in the cultures of
Southeast Asia .
It ' s important for minority youngsters to have as role models not only doctors and
lawyers and ministers , but also men and women ... But if I experience trouble in
getting monies together , imagine what happens to some unknown minority
person with a new startup idea but no track record . ... What are the myths about
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Consultant Griggs offers information on planning transitions in a dental practice. He discusses ways to transfer the practice from one owner to another, bring in an associate, sell or purchase all or part of a practice, structure comprehensive transition agreements, use financial and legal advisors, assess the market place, enhance the value of a practice, and cash in on a practice's equity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
