Published in Dec 2009 Harvard Business Review

  • Two identical twins with same brains and natural talents
  • Both have been assigned a task: creating a new business venture in a week
  • one will stay at home in the week
  • but the other spent his whole week by
    • talking to 10 people - an engineer, a musician, a stay-at-home dad, and designer.
    • visits 3 innovative startups to observe what they do
    • Samples five new to the market products
    • shows a prototype he built to 5 people.
    • Asks the question “what if I tried this?” …

Who do you bet will come up with the more innovative and doable idea?

Of course the second Twin