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By Pat Villaceran
Pillar articles
- Innovation is a muscle you can train
Yes. Research on creativity training shows well-designed programmes usually improve performance, and there's a short exercise founders can do each morning.
- How to stop building the same thing as everyone else
How to come up with a unique business idea: write your move down before you look at the market, because seeing other answers first pulls you towards them.
- Cross-industry innovation: how to borrow from other fields without copying them
Cross industry innovation works when you borrow the structure underneath an idea and leave its surface behind. Here's the research, with five steps to try.
- Who is accountable when an AI agent gets it wrong?
Who is accountable when AI makes a mistake? Start by writing down where your agent stops and a person takes over.
- Answer the top level first: the questions before you execute
Questions to ask before starting a business? Start above money and market: the culture, what you stand for and fight for, why you built it, the impact.
News takes
- Selling to agents still means knowing the person behind them
A founder told Paul Graham most of his sales would be to agents, and Graham admitted he could be right. The agent still works for a person, so start there.
- If anyone can rebuild the app, what are you defending?
Third-party transcripts say Chamath Palihapitiya called software IP effectively worthless. If anyone can rebuild your app, what's still yours to defend?
- Who pays when your agent spends money it shouldn't?
Lead Bank's Jackie Reses asks who answers when an AI agent spends money it shouldn't, and that list is worth writing before you launch.
- Railway's founder solves it himself before he looks at anyone else's answer
Railway's founder works a problem out himself before he looks at anyone else's answer, and here's what that habit protects.