Just watched the whole thing and it definitely opened my eyes to a lot of concepts, primarily relating to customer development and how to really position ourselves. I think the point that I enjoyed most was making it imperative that you share your vision of innovation with your entire team. Not only that, but really convey what it is that your company is trying to achieve and what's necessary to focus on that thing moving forward (being that there's only two of us now, you sort of lose sight of these things). There's a lot of great stuff in here, going to watch it again when the time is available.
I haven't read Dealing with Darwin, but I thought Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado were just as insightful and useful as Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma.
They're also complementary to that, because Innovator's Dilemma is more about the strategy of building a product the right way to transform the market, while his books are about managing the market growth once you build the product.
> Innovator's Dilemma is more about the strategy of building a product the right way to transform the market
Clayton Christensen gave a talk at Bell Labs not too long after his book hit the charts. The biggest take away of the talk was a bit different: Eat your own lunch before somebody else does. (He used the disk-drive industry as an example.)
Stackexchange, and now Trello, are much more open than Fogbugz. Fogbugz was innovative at it's conception, but now it seems legacy (for the record, I use Fogbugz every day, love it, and probably continue to use it). He faced Atlasian, he took VC money, and aims for an open grand market target. That's quiet a change.
Nice quote: "when VC give you money their only bet is that you will ride the tornado".
