What DeepSeek Can Teach Us About Resourcefulness

Moving from discovery to implementation reduces one of China’s greatest weak points (outside-the-box approaches to research questions) and also leverages the country’s most significant strength: scrappy entrepreneurs with sharp instincts for building robust businesses. The transition from expertise to data has a similar benefit, downplaying the imp

We tell entrepreneurs to find a need, test, and trial until they find a solution to that need, move fast, and break things. Yes, betas work; our method is a process of induction, right out of the playbook of the scientific method. Yet we need to insert a framework of intentionality into that process so that at the end of our experiments, we have a

Hosking’s experience reveals useful principles. She made no promises – if she had, she would have got them wrong. But she came to the problem with three assets: need, resources and passion. She knew that there was a demonstrable need for a change in consumer behaviour. She had resources: her knowledge, her media experience and her relationship with

And in the words of one lab team member, “If you always do what you’ve always done, then you’ll get what you always got.”3