Innovation and start ups manifest the future from ideas. It is more philosophy than technology this presentation aims to illustrate.

1. Innovation and Startups
A brief discussion for
Snt. Dominic’s College
As a Man Thinketh So Is He.
James Allen
@kevinleversee

2. My Goal is to inspire a
future full of inventors
We can change the world, by changing the way
people think.
@kevinleversee

3. I am
not an.
expert

4. .

5. We have the
right to
.
dream Heroic
Dreams

6. Kevin! You must be
F*cking Stupid or F*cking
Cheap! out of ANYONE in
the world WHY WOULD .
ANYONE WANT YOU?!
-Dean Leversee

7. Typical (Filipino) Student

8. Psychological Maps

9. Psychological Maps

10. Why We Do What We Do
Why.
Why we do what we do?
The Past is not our future.
Decision is Destiny.
Why did we not achieve the
goal?
What stops us from being
our best?
At the end of the day…
Its Us. EMOTION.

12. Things that Stop Us
• Family Pressures
– What was ten years ago is not today
• Money Pressures
– We do not have a $ problem, we have idea
problem
• Society (Culture) Pressures
– The virtue of selfishness

13. You do not want a
good job.
You want what
that job gives you

14. You do not want
Technology
You want what
that Technology
gives you

15. What Do YOU
want?
Do you even
know?

16. Learn how to
Learn.
You are the Pilot.

17. Connections have Meaning

18. How things are Versus What they
Can Be?
Go from Victim to Victor
Change the DNA
Empower
Inspire new startups

19. Transcend
• Decision is Destiny = Evolve
• Greatness is a process = Agility
• Excellence is a habit not a virtue = Iterations

20. Desire, Human Behavior and
the Village

21. Myth
=

22. It is a business
not a science
project or
popularity
contest

23. Why?
• Desire is the foundation to everything
• Human behavior is social
• Linguistic relativity and the village
• Social knowledge and cultures
• Village is intimacy
• The world is our village

31. Do schools Kill Creativity?
Why do Sh*t you hate?

32. Natural ability without
education has more often
attained to glory and virtue
than education without
natural ability.
Cicero
@KevinLeversee
kleversee@gmail.com

33. Sources
• http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great Good to great book and research powerful and a major cornerstone in my life
http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html
• http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we_do.html Tony Robbins on why we do what we do
• Synaptic Web (Cloud Ave) http://www.cloudave.com/link/on-the-synaptic-web
– (Paper) http://synapticweb.pbworks.com/
• http://youtu.be/EhqZ0RU95d4 Gary V on why do sh*t you hate?
• John Battelle (Google Rolls Out Social Search) http://battellemedia.com/archives/005107.php
• Mark Granovetter Network Theory Revisited The strength of Ties
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.128.7760&rep=rep1&type=pdf.
• Small Worlds (paper then book) http://tam.cornell.edu/tam/cms/manage/upload/SS_nature_smallworld.pdf
• Google Paper (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine) http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/361/
• Aardvark Paper (“Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine” ) http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/06/social-searching-with-aardvark-a-
large-social-search-engine/
– TechCrunch (Impact of Aardvark paper) http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/aardvark-research/
• Abandoning the News http://carnegie.org/publications/carnegie-reporter/single/view/article/item/124/
• Wave McannErickson (Slideshare) http://www.slideshare.net/webrazzi/universal-mccann-wave-3
– (Full Report) http://ia311314.us.archive.org/2/items/UniversalMccannWave3PowerToThePeople/Wave3.pdf
• Pew Report (Social Media and Young Adults) http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx
• Danah Boyd (Trust and Intimacy) http://www.danah.org/papers/Ubicomp2003WorkshopApp2.pdf
– (World Of Warcraft) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/05/the_power_of_so.html (Glocalization)
http://www.danah.org/papers/Etech2006.html
– (Streams of Content) http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Web2Expo.html
– (iPhone Cluster Effect) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/07/15/can_the_iphone.html
– (sociality is learning) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/30/sociality_is_le.html
• John Seely Brown (push pull) www.johnseelybrown.com/pushmepullyou4.72.pdf
• John Hagel http://www.johnhagel.com/view20051015.shtml
• Cluetrain (The Cluetrain Manifesto) http://www.cluetrain.com
• Metcalf (pro) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
– (counter) http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/metcalfes-law-is-wrong