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Startups and the Myth of Sisyphus
Sisyphus, by @gapingvoid This weekend I was doing some thinking about Sisyphus. In the past couple of weeks I’ve come across a couple of cartoons referencing him (one above, one at the end of this...
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Startup Blues
“entrepreneur to the slaughter” by @gapingvoid So, you launch your new idea into the world and. . .not much happens. At least, not much seems to be happening from the measures you’ve put into place on...
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Mapping Customer Job Stories – Adding the pain
“amplify a need” from @gapingvoid In his excellent blog post “Replacing The User Story With The Job Story” Alan Klement provided a very compelling argument to move away from mapping based on personas...
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Two questions before we begin
“show me your passion or get out” from @gapingvoid Before you begin a new venture, or pursue a business opportunity or lead, what questions to you ask yourself? Typically the questions people ask...
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Where is your muse?
from @gapingvoid Passion is great but it’s exhausting and difficult to sustain. So, today I thought I’d write about the things I look at or reflect upon on a daily basis to ensure I stay on course and...
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Customer development: engaging youth
“The Hunger…” from @gapingvoid Let’s say you’ve developed a framework for customer development (such as described here) and it dawns on you that you actually need to get out of your comfort zone and...
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Talking to the “right” people
from @gapingvoid Upon reading my post about engaging youth (found here) @MBWonderWoman asked through a tweet “How do you consistently get the right people in the room to build these ideas?”. Given that...
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Planting Seeds, Customer Development, and Patience
“making ideas happen” by @gapingvoid “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” – Arnold Glasow This new and exciting idea may be amazing to you,...
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Butterfly and the Future of Community Development
Create culture – from @gapingvoid Before I say anything else, I want to say this – a website is not a solution: it merely provides a way to scale and automate the delivery of your concept. In other...
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Butterfly – Bold Radio interview with Kevin Chief and Chino Argueta
This recording is from a broadcast on CJOB 680 on August 23, 2014. People recorded are the Hon. Kevin Chief (Minister for Children and Youth Opportunities and Minister responsible for relations with...
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Sustaining passion and Butterfly’s development approach
So I’m waiting at The Windmill restaurant on Selkirk Avenue in Winnipeg. Why I’m here is to talk to some incredible people from Aboriginal Youth Opportunities about Butterfly and the current...
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Speaking notes from a 5 minute presentation
“Nobody Cares” – from @gapingvoid A number of weeks ago I was asked to do an Ignite presentation at The Arts and Cultural Industries Association of Manitoba (“ACI”). The ACI aims to strengthens,...
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How to deal with stragglers
Struggling with Straggling I facilitate many group activities. One issue that occurs at virtually every session is the issue of latecomers. How do I deal with people who show up late? Do you wait for...
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Butterfly Laboratory
image by @gapingvoid (Hugh McLeod) The Butterfly Lab concept was created out of necessity. After developing and exploring the initial idea of Butterfly using principles of customer development we...
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So why empathy?
Why empathy? This question comes up frequently, whether I’m talking to people about developing Butterfly, or talking to them about product/service/solution development in a more general sense. I’ll...
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Empathy, Mapping Customer Job Stories, and Business Modeling
It’s been some time since I wrote about customer job stories and the connection to empathy maps and solution design (initial post here), so I thought I would revisit this topic and provide more...
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Butterfly Interview: Alex’s Scarves on CBC radio
Below is the soundcloud for Alex’s interview with Janet Stewart of CBC about her project. Check it out! Chris Butterfly Website
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It’s about the scarves and not about the scarves
Arm-knitted scarves Prelimaries Before I write anything else I want to say how inspired and genuinely happy I am for Alex and her team. Their project (the first on the Butterfly website) was...
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What work means here
Shot of author’s cabinet People frequently ask me “what is Protegra?” and “what do you do there?”, and I sometimes have difficulty telling them. The difficulty is not that I don’t know the answer;...
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Minecraft and Elementary Schools: Reflections from 1st session
MC Terry Bunio setting up the room Here’s the thing. Minecraft is huge. It’s amazing. It’s accessible and complex. Kids love it. I love it. Everyone who encounters Minecraft should love it. Mention...
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