Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
“You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.”
In 1974, with two young children, substantial debt, and a whopping mortgage, I stepped out of an exciting job, a company directorship, and a salary, into the unknown.
James Dyson • Invention: A Life
Three Innovation Lessons from James Dyson
Dyson advertising focuses on how our products are engineered and how they work, rather than on gimmicks and snappy sales lines. Manufacturing itself is highly creative.
James Dyson • Invention: A Life
He bisected the entire market into just two categories
- Bagless vacuums 👍
- Vacuums with bags 🤮
Consumers could suddenly see the problem ... See more
Chris Guest • The Invisible Intersection of Category Design and Lean Startup
why vacuum cleaner manufacturers were not immediately persuaded by Dyson’s innovative technology. The entire discussion fell apart at the first stage because the manufacturers didn’t acknowledge there was a problem.
Bernadette Jiwa • The Right Story: The secret to spreading your ideas
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James Dyson • Invention: A Life
In 1983, after four years of building and testing 5,127 handmade prototypes of my cyclonic vacuum, I finally cracked it. Perhaps I should have punched the air, whooped loudly, and run down the road from my workshop shrieking “Eureka!” at the top of my voice. Instead, far from feeling elated—which surely after 5,126 failures I should have been—I fel
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