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Larry is a man from Los Gatos, California, USA

Founder of Brilliant FORGE, which provides advisory services to startups and Fortune 500 companies

  • Presentation: The User Experience IS the Product...

    Rated Jan 20 1 review design brilliantforge.com

    A presentation by Larry Cornett of Brilliant Forge used for a Product Management conference. It highlights the power of Product Experience, some best practices for User-Centered Product Design (UCD), a brief discussion of the role of Product Management, and a use case from a product redesign at eBay.
  • Investing in Your Leaders - The ROI of Leadership...

    Rated Oct 18 2011 1 review business brilliantforge.com

    I had the good fortune during my career to participate in leadership coaching for the first time when I was a VP at Yahoo. I had certainly heard about career coaching over the years, but had never really considered trying it. My experience with companies in Silicon Valley has been that the majority used to take a "sink or swim" approach to management and leadership. You either were a "natural" and got it or you struggled and failed (often becoming the worst nightmare of your employees). Luckily, most companies are increasingly offering some management and leadership training through their HR departments. This is certainly better than nothing, but generalized corporate workshops rarely help you become your best and you don't really get the long-term mentoring that you need to help you resolve and learn from the conflict that you will personally encounter as a leader. Sometimes, though, you are lucky enough to have had a great manager who took you under his or her wing, gave you honest feedback and guidance, and helped coach you as you took those first steps down the path of managing and leading a team. But, unfortunately, those types of managers and leaders are still fairly rare.
  • Why Do Startups Fail? An Analysis of 3,200 High-growth...

    Rated Sep 01 2011 1 review business, technology brilliantforge.com

    Great review of a report that researched over 3000 technology startups to understand why some startups succeed, while others fail
  • Developing Your Creativity and Innovative Thinking...

    Rated Aug 25 2011 1 review business brilliantforge.com

    I answered an interesting question on Quora today about creativity and innovative thinking. I've encountered this question in its many forms several times over in my lifetime. I remember one of the earliest being when I was in high school. The principal and a few teachers formed a very small research committee that included 5 of their top students, which included me (I wore glasses and looked smarter back then). The goal was to create a program to spark, encourage, and guide the creative power of the students in the school. We were seeking the holy grail of trying to find a program and process that was already successful. We discovered that no one was completely successful, although there were some interesting aspects of the different programs. Fast forward to my career in Silicon Valley and history has been repeating itself at every company where I either worked as an employee or consulted.

    Everyone wants to find a way for their employees and their organizations to be more innovative.
  • Shoshin Project Video Interview with Larry Cornett:...

    Rated Dec 15 2010 1 review business, technology brilliantforge.com

    I was in NYC last week and had the pleasure of speaking with the folks from The Shoshin Project about the current trends within the Tech industry. Specifically, we talked a lot about the impact of social media and how it could potential disrupt traditional information retrieval (i.e., Web Search). I believe that social media's popularity and technology may push aside traditional search by helping users tame the information overload beast that the "stream" has become.
  • Another Facebook Privacy Breach Today | Brilliant FORGE

    Rated Jul 14 2010 1 review facebook brilliantforge.com

    I logged into Facebook today and saw what I thought was an email from one of my friends. It was not. It was actually a threaded conversation between two of my friends and not meant for anyone else's eyes. Ouch. Facebook has slipped up and violated our privacy again.
  • Sounds Great, But What Do I Win? | Brilliant FORGE

    Rated Jul 13 2010 1 review design brilliantforge.com

    Here are the details explaining what the designer who creates the winning logo will receive:

    * 1 ticket to the Warm Gun conference
    * On-stage mention of the winning logo design and designer by Dave McClure
    * Mention in the program guide with the designer's website and contact info
    * Blog post on the Warm Gun site authored by the designer on a topic of choice (perhaps describing your design process for creating the logo)
  • Twitter is the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine?...

    Rated Jul 08 2010 1 review search, yahoo, bing, fast company, twitter brilliantforge.com

    Well, as reported by Fast Company today, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone stated they have now reached ~800 million search queries per day. That supposedly puts them above the combined query volume of Yahoo plus Bing. This story has spread like wildfire across the web, with everyone jumping on and claiming that Twitter is now â€oethe Worldâ€s Fastest Growing Search Engine”. Really? Only if you donâ€t dig deeper into how those searches are counted. Only if you donâ€t really understand Search and the difference between a query a human being enters into a search box and an automated query that updates tweet results on a topic every few seconds.
  • Apple iPhone 4 Antenna Conundrum | Brilliant FORGE

    Rated Jun 25 2010 1 review apple, antenna, iphone brilliantforge.com

    There have been a lot of discussions over the past couple of days about an antenna issue with the new Apple iPhone 4. Mine isn't here yet (grumble), so I have to rely on what others have been experiencing. But, apparently, if you hold the new iPhone in such a way that your hand bridges the gap between the two antennas on the left side (circled in red on the image), you can lose reception to the point that calls are dropped.