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How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World

Simon & Schuster, 2015 more...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Whether you’re producing T-shirts or mining asteroids for minerals, serial entrepreneur Peter H. Diamandis and research scientist Steven Kotler’s enthusiasm for what’s possible will win you over. Their “Six D’s of Exponentials” framework lays the groundwork for examining the profound opportunities available to today’s “exponential entrepreneurs”: the visionaries already changing the world using new technologies and platforms. Accounts of robotics, genomics and artificial intelligence bring home how much the world will change in the coming decades. The authors share the powerful, inexpensive tools available to everyone right now to fund, build and market your great idea. Chapters on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and “incentive competitions” – including detailed guidance – are especially helpful. getAbstract recommends this valuable guide to investors, start-ups, entrepreneurs with big ideas and leaders of large organizations.

Take-Aways

  • Newer technologies, faster computers and bigger networks place incredible power in the hands of ordinary individuals at minimal cost.
  • “Exponential growth” models have replaced traditional “linear growth” models.
  • The “Six D’s of Exponentials” model shows the stages of innovation: “digitalization, deception, disruption, demonetization, dematerialization and democratization.”

About the Authors

Space entrepreneur and physician Peter H. Diamandis and scientist Steve Kotler co-wrote the bestseller Abundance. Kotler co-founded the Flow Genome Project. Diamandis founded the X Prize Foundation and co-founded Singularity University, Space Adventures, the International Space University and Planetary Resources, among other high-technology enterprises.


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    A. M. 5 months ago
    Excellent summary
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    R. A. 6 years ago
    This book has changed forever my mind on entrepreneurship and businnes kick startership.

    Very useful and inspirational.
    I like the how the authors spotlighte and focus in creativity and innovation

    Just I wanna start helping 1 billion people worldwide to succed in my aims.
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    N. C. 7 years ago
    Very general, but ok