How Your Idea Can Change The Future

How Your Idea
Can Change The Future
Webinar
January 29, 2014

Coach Davender Gupta
Startup-Académie
www.startupacademie.com
www.coachdavender.com

Most ideas are
too small to support
a big vision.

© 2012 Davender Gupta - www.startupacademie.com
Tous droits réservés

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Where do ideas come from?
- Experience
- Personal experience

- Extrapolation
- “What if?” “What’s next?”

- Empathy
- Observing other people’s situation

- Excitement
- Imagination, inspiration

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An idea is like a block of
smooth marble, beautiful to
the sight and to the touch.
However, the purpose of a
block of smooth marble is to
be broken. Your job is to
chisel away the stuff that's
not relevant in order to
reveal the true genius
within.

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What is your idea?
Vision of what you want to do
The "void" (need) you want to fill
Are you problem-driven or solutiondriven? (there are
benefits/drawbacks of each
approach)
What is the WOW in your idea?

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Finding the WOW
Does it matter?
 find the emotion
Does it go to the core issues?
 find the transformation
What will you learn?
 Whatever the outcome,
if you learn, you win
Is it prototypable?
 fast evolution cycle
 sell, build, deliver
Does it create Raving Fans?

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Why do you want to do this?
• What are your personal values and priorities
• How does this idea fit with your personal
life mission
• How do you define "success" for yourself?
• How does this idea fit with your personal
philosophy and values?
• Why are YOU the right person to make this
happen?


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Big Hairy Audacious Idea
Mission, Vision, Values
What you are
deeply passionate about

What you
can be
the best
in the world at

BHAG
What drives your
economic engine

Maximize Potential


Game-Changing
Results

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What makes this idea irresistibly
attractive?
Four P’s
- Purpose
- Passion
- People
- Profit


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Purpose
What is the impact you are creating?
 What is the change in people’s lives because
what you do?
 How is the world a better place because of
what you do?

If you were not being paid any
money to do this, would you still be
doing it?

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What is the value of your idea?

My needs, desires,
passions, priorities,
values

Needs, desires,
passions,
priorities, values of
others

no means

MAX
VALUE
no demand

no passion

Resources
skills, money, assets, experience


©2005 Davender Gupta

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Passion
The creative tension between the
future you want to create and the
present moment


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People
Stakeholders:

Anyone or anything
touched by your
idea, whether
or not any money
is exchanged

Neighbours/ Users Suppliers
Community
Government/
Past Employees/
Regulatory
Pensioners
Natural
Environment

Shareholders

YOUR BIG
THE
IDEA
COMPANY

Clients
Investors

Partners
Enthusiasts

Employees/
Families

Prospective
Clients
SubLabour
contractors Industry Market


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Profit
The win-win result, tangible and
intangible, that enables both parties
to live their full potential.


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Can your idea scale?
- Logistics: How many more
resources are needed to serve
more people?
- Market: How will your idea “cross
the chasm” from early adopters to
the “mass market”?
- Need: How will this need evolve
with time?

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Discovering the insight
About what we
know (fact)
What we know

Discover

What we don’t
know


About what we
don’t know
(hypothesis)
About what we
know
(intuition)
About what we
don’t know
(insight)

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Your First Step
Write your Manifesto:
 What is the change you wish to create in the
world?
 Why this?
 Why now?
 Why me?
 What are you committed to creating?


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My Manifesto
I'm on a mission to equip 21st-century passion-driven entrepreneurial
leaders with the clarity, commitment, confidence and courage to make a
positive difference in the world.
Why? We need a new approach to leadership, to meet the challenges of
a rapidly changing and chaotic future.
Entrepreneurship is the best way to ignite the imagination, focus the
resources and stimulate the massive action required to overcome the
huge obstacles we face.
The future we desperately need will be created not by politicians, or by
the CEOs of the old guard, but by a new generation of citizen-leaders
who are crystal-clear about their purpose, who are powered by the
passion of a big vision, and who transform the status-quo by mobilizing
communities of people to build systems that create profit and prosperity
for all.


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Success Factors of an
Idea That Can Change The Future
Cool
 Keeps you awake at night

Compelling
 Attracts people + resources

Controlled
 Disciplined planning and execution


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Success is…

Success is creating
an experience of
life which expresses
your full potential


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Find a need that beats
your drum.
Create a plan, then
make a dent.
Trust that your rewards
will come.
And credit them as
heaven sent.
- Peter Drucker

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To keep in touch
Coach Davender Gupta, MSc.
Venture Catalyst and Visioneer

www.startupacademie.com
www.coachdavender.com
(Québec) 418 948-1553
(Montréal) 514 448-1894
coach@davender.com


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