Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Many might remember the story of Eric Moussambani, the ‘Olympic swimmer’ from Equatorial Guinea who took 1:52.72 to complete his 100m swim at Sydney 2000, more than twice that of his nearest competitor. Before the Olympics, he had never even seen a 50m long pool, took up swimming eight months prior and practiced swimming in a lake.

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk return on optimisation, or ROO. Companies often get obsessed running A/B tests to optimise their marketing funnels, but, are they optimising the wrong thing? Optimising early, during problem and solution definition, generates a much higher return than optimising late, particularly if you've defined the problem incorrectly.

Many of us are not all that different to Eric and I'll explain why.

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Katherine Squire is the General Manager of App Development and DevOps at the Australian Stock Exchange.

She has over 20 years' experience in Exchange, Investment

Katherine was Executive General Manager at IRESS where she was responsible for turning around the Financial Markets Products Division with a focus on building a strong, high performing team that could scale globally. She has extensive experience in product management.

 

Topics Discussed:

• Culture change at the ASX...one bite of the elephant at a time
• The adoption of DevOps
• Going from 'little circles of sanity to wildfire'
• The importance of having buy-in from the top
• Cloud projects at the ASX- Docker and containers
• The seamless integration of old and new
• What it takes to transition away from legacy infrastructure

 

Show Notes:

Katherine's au.linkedin.com/in/katherinesquire

 

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Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future ---- I was recently asked to partake in a discussion with a newly formed innovation team at an ASX20 company. What started out as an informal discussion quickly had me on my feet, white-boarding away and firing on all cognitive cylinders as I talked, or drew my way, through the different things large bureaucratic organisations need to consider when it comes to the big hairy audacious mission of creating an environment that truly supports disruptive innovation. After babbling on for a little while, it was question time and one question in particular prompted me to write this post - “if you come back here in a year how will you determine whether or not we’ve been successful?” So in this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I bring you success metrics for corporate innovation programs and teams. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us

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Hailing from Austin, Texas, Ash Maurya is the founder of Leanstack. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework.

Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, frequently writing about this on his blog and turning this into the critically acclaimed book, “Running Lean: How to Iterate from Plan A to a plan that works”. Ash is also the creator of the one-page business modelling tool, the Lean Canvas, which is used by startups and corporate innovators across the globe.

His new book "Scaling Lean: Master the Key Metrics for Startup Growth, debuted at #2 on the WSJ Business Bestseller list, and explores an invaluable blueprint for modelling startup success and ultimately scale a business by implementing a 10X rollout strategy.

Ash is praised for offering some of the best and most practical advice for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs all over the world. Driven by the search for better and faster ways for building successful products, Ash has developed a systematic methodology for raising the odds of success built upon Lean Startup, Customer Development, and Bootstrapping techniques.

Ash is also a leading business blogger and his posts and advice have been featured in Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and Fortune. He regularly hosts sold out workshops around the world and serves as a mentor to several accelerators including TechStars, MaRS, Capital Factory, and guest lecturers at several universities including MIT, Harvard, and UT Austin. Ash serves on the advisory board of a number of startups, and has consulted to new and established companies.

Aside from creating indispensable resources for innovators and entrepreneurs, Ash is a foodie, a dad, a husband and a yogi.

Topics Discussed:

- His new book, Scaling Lean, and how it differs from Running Lean

- An overview of the Running Lean process

- How to 10x your company while staying lean

- Using the lean canvas in large organisations

- The metrics that matter and why one metric may not always be the best approach

- Challenges in getting large organisations to adopt lean and how they might be overcome

- Examples of how large companies have effectively implemented lean product development

- How to identify and prioritise your biggest customer, market and product risks

- What metrics corporate innovators should use instead of NPV and IRR

- How much data is enough to draw conclusions

- How to start embedding a culture of experimentation in a large, otherwise conservative, organisations

- Why regulation is no excuse not to go lean and in fact is more reason to do so

- Socratic thinking

- How to get into flow

 

Show Notes:

Twitter: @ashmaurya

Ash's site: ashmaurya.com

Ash's business: leanstack.com

Ash's books: 

• Running Lean: https://amzn.to/2PSJDnb
• Scaling Lean: https://amzn.to/2DkiHeD

 

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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk about the power of turning bad habits into good habits and how it can have a profound impact on both your personal and professional life! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us

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Pascal Finette heads up Entrepreneurship at Singularity University as well as SU Labs, its accelerator program which grows startups that are focused on tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies.

He loves technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla’s Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair and invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org.

He also founded the non-profit organizations Mentor for Good, POWERUP and The Coaching Fellowship; the GyShiDo (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated The Heretic newsletter. He frequently speaks and writes about the magic which happens at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology & global impact.

As a trained Co-Active executive coach he works with clients on achieving their full leadership potential. But most of all – Pascal loves to work with entrepreneurs who are making things better and go from zero to one.

 

Topics Discussed:

• How SULabs is different to other accelerators
• What SULabs startups are working on (like printing 3D parts in space amongst other things!)
• What ingredients are vital for the success of an accelerator program
• Challenges of corporate startup partnerships and how to circumvent these
• Why we all go through "the same sh*t" and why being transparent about doubt can be therapeutic for startup founders
• Gy shi do
• Pascal's global "Get your sh*t done" movement
• What emerging technologies Pascal is excited by
• Pascal's view on 'the singularity', the point in time where machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence, and what it means for humanity
• Pascal's view on how we will get Peter Diamandis to appear on Future Squared!

 

Show Notes:

Twitter: @pfinette

TheHeretic.org

Finette.com

singularityu.org/bio/pascal-finette/

Gyshido.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pfinette 

 

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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk "Gyshido" or Getting Your Shit Done, a movement spearheaded by Singularity University's Pascal Finette, who will be our very special guest on the next episode of Future Squared! Check out Gyshido.com for more! Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future Like us? It'd make our day if you took 1 minute to show some love on iTunes, Stitcher or Soundcloud by subscribing, sharing and giving us a 5 star rating. To sign up to our mailing list head to www.futuresquared.xyz For more information on Collective Campus, our innovation hub, school and consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia, check out www.collectivecamp.us

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We're going live a day early this week in anticipation of not one, but two, very special announcements tomorrow from the team here at Collective Campus. 

This week's guest is Richard Schmalensee, the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management Emeritus and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as the John C Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 through 2007. He was as a Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served for 12 years as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Professor Schmalensee is the author or co-author of 12 books and more than 120 published articles.

His research has centered on industrial organization economics and its application to managerial and public policy issues, and he was the 2012 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. Professor Schmalensee is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association and has been a Director of the International Securities Exchange and other corporations. He is currently a Director of the International Data Group and the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future. He has testified before Congress and served as a consultant to government agencies and numerous private firms.

 

Topics Discussed:

- The difference between single-sided and multi-sided marketplaces

- The challenges of growing a marketplace platform like Airbnb

- What successful marketplaces have in common

- How to increase your chances of success when building a marketplace

- The role of marketplaces in employee and contractor welfare

- Are sharing economy companies really about sharing?

- Regulatory considerations

- The impact of blockchain on marketplaces

 

Show Notes:

1. Richard’s books:

• Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms - https://amzn.to/2QNtbpz

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  Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing - https://amzn.to/2xyuCQN

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  Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries - https://amzn.to/2Nyrq1x

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  Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future - https://amzn.to/2zn4bis

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  Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems: Theory, Practice, Policy - https://amzn.to/2MUdhGH

 

 

2. Richard’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/richard-schmalensee-699252 

3. Marketplatforms.com

4. Richard's profile at MIT: rschmal.scripts.mit.edu/

 

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In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I talk why you should
disrupt yourself.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself, and formerly co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, way back when in episode #13 of Future Squared.

She told the story of her own personal reinvention from secretary on Wall Street to high ranking equities analyst to co-founder of a boutique investment firm which invested in and led the $8 million seed round for Korea’s Coupang, currently valued at US$5+ billion.

It got me thinking about my own story of personal disruption, and just how important personal reinvention is in today's increasingly uncertain environment where the exponential growth in technology is underpinning the disruption of not just industries, not just companies, but perhaps most importantly, people.

Find out how to go about disrupting yourself and my personal journey of self-disruption.

 

Show Notes:

DisruptYourselfBook.com

 

 

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This mid-week bonus is a little different!

After over 50 episodes, mostly of me interviewing other people, in this episode, the tables are turned.

I recently had the pleasure of appearing on Ray Milidoni’s Razor Sharp show which was a lot of fun.

Ray poked and probed about a number of topics such as how to get started in business, how to get the most out of every day, how to build, measure and learn using the lean startup, we also got talking about Lemonade Stand, the children’s entrepreneurship program I co-founded and why teaching children entrepreneurial thinking is so important, we talk about the entrepreneur’s mindset and above all else, we have a LOT of fun, and I’m sure you’ll gather as much by listening to this episode.

 

Show Notes:

- RazorSharpShow.com

- Sprint by Jake Knapp

- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen Covey

- The Startup Owner’s Manual by Steve Blank

- Traction By Gabriel Weinberg

- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen

- All Marketers Tell Stories by Seth Godin

- Blue Ocean Strategy by Chan Kim

- SupaHands: www.supahands.com/

 

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