Innovation first, Revolution afterwards!

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Reading this post by Martin Zwilling at Forbes' blog about Innovation makes me think about iFacturas. We sure have developed an innovative tool that allowes self-employed professionals bill on the go and at the point of service directly from the smartphone (iPhone and Windows Phone 7) and hopefully, iFacturas will turn into a Revolution. The way I see it, professionals will soon use iFacturas to invoice on the go at the time they get the accounting automatically done.

For the moment, only professionals from Norway and Spain can take advantage of our tool, but soon it will also be available in the US among other countries.

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Great startups these days start with innovation, and then take it up a few notches to make it a revolution. An example is Google, who turned a new search technology into a tool that most of us couldn’t live without. As an entrepreneur, how do you know if you have the potential to innovate, and what are the steps to get from innovation to revolution?
While digging into this subject, I came across a new book by Patrick J. Howie, called “The Evolution of Revolutions,” which makes the points that resonate with my experience. He starts with a discussion of the Big Five personality traits, used to explain individual differences across all walks of life. The following three seem to relate most closely to innovative potential:
  • Openness to experience. Scoring high on openness has been found to be the top predictor of an entrepreneur’s innovativeness. Having a curiosity to learn about all new things increases the likelihood of “seeing” novel solutions.
  • Hardworking and responsible. Innovation is hard work. Good entrepreneurs have to develop sufficient knowledge and enjoy the difficult problem-solving process to achieve real innovation. That requires a high level of commitment, and a high degree of ambition.
  • Desire to communicate. If an entrepreneur creates an innovation but never talks and shares it, then the innovation may never be recognized. An entrepreneur doesn’t have to be a raving extravert, but working with other people and selling are required capabilities.
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