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      Chad McMillan
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        Creativity & Innovation

        The Right Vehicle for an Idea: Build It, Partner It, License It, Sell It or Let It Wait

        A good idea does not automatically require a new company. Different ideas deserve different vehicles: operating ventures, partnerships, licensing, IP sales, creative projects or simply more time.
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        AI Is Collapsing the Cost of Testing Ideas

        AI matters to me less as a novelty than as a change in the economics of experimentation. Individuals and small teams can now test certain ideas faster and more cheaply than was recently practical.
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        Constraints Can Make You More Creative

        Unlimited options can create paralysis. Constraints force prioritization, combinations and unconventional solutions—and can become a surprisingly powerful creative tool.
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        How I Decide Whether an Idea Is Worth Pursuing

        I do not need every idea to become a company. I want to understand the problem, timing, differentiation, feasibility, economics, my own advantage and the right vehicle before deciding what an idea deserves.
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        Future Thinking: Look for What Is Becoming Possible, Not Just What Exists Today

        Future thinking is not predicting exactly what happens next. It is noticing the forces changing what is possible and asking what opportunities, behaviours and systems might emerge as a result.
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        Cross-Pollination: Why I Like Working Across Business, Markets, Technology & Creativity

        Moving across different disciplines can look unfocused from the outside. For me, it creates a larger library of patterns, models and ideas that can be recombined in unexpected ways.
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        Idea Capture: Why I Treat My Notes Like an Inventory of Possibility

        Capturing ideas is not just about remembering them. A long-running collection of observations, concepts and fragments becomes raw material that can connect and compound over time.
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        Small Experiments Beat Big Assumptions

        When an idea contains uncertainty, I would rather design the smallest credible experiment that teaches me something important than build an expensive system around assumptions.
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        Innovation vs. Invention: Creating Something New Is Only the Beginning

        Invention creates something new. Innovation creates a change that matters. The distance between those two ideas is usually commercialization, adoption and execution.
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        Where Good Ideas Come From: Problems, Friction, Change & Connection

        I rarely think good ideas arrive from nowhere. They tend to appear where there is friction, change, an unmet need or a useful connection between things that normally live apart.
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        Why Being Early Can Look Exactly Like Being Wrong

        Some ideas fail because they are bad. Others fail because the surrounding technology, economics, behaviour or infrastructure is not ready yet. Knowing the difference matters.
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        Seeing What Others Miss: How I Think About Ideas, Creativity & Innovation

        My approach to creativity starts with curiosity: noticing what is changing, connecting things that do not normally sit together, imagining what could exist, and then doing the work required to turn possibility into something real.
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        My Journey

        Many of you here might not yet know much about who I am, some of my life experiences, and why I may have anything of value to add to the conversation around the topics I'm exploring. Learn more about me in this post as I share who I am, and some of the wild ride I've been on thus far...

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        Catalysts of Change

        Over the years I've come to recognize that in my own life, as well as the lives of others there are major moments that inspire a change of direction. Moments that set a new course for our journey. In this post I explore these catalysts, how to manifest them for ourselves, and how to shift our experiences into becoming the best version of ourselves we can be.
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        Find Creative Flow States

        In this post I share my inspiration to deepen and expand my own content channels, creating from flow states and trusting the journey will take me where I'm supposed to go. As you learn about my strategies and philosophy here, consider how my process might inspire your own creative journey as well.
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        Mastering Ai : How to Work with Artificial Intelligence

        In this post I explore this fast emerging trend of artificial intelligence, sharing how I'm working with it, some of the tools I'm using, and ways you can take your work and life to the next level with this technology as well.
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        The Creator Economy : Turning Passion into Profit and Impact

        In this post I explore the value and opportunities that I feel are emerging in the creator economy for independent entrepreneurs, as well as how and why I am embracing this opportunity for myself, my partners, and clients.
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        Studying the Craft of Acting with Vancouver Acting Coach Mr. Andrew McIlroy at McIlroy and Associates

        Time to hit the mark..
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        Angels & Demons | Heroes & Villains - In the Movies, Business, Performance & Life

        As above, so below.. Whose side are you on, anyways?
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        Introducing My New "Fresh x Raw" Podcast

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        How to Find Alignment, Balance, and Enter Flow States

        Clear, rebalance, align, and flow..
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        An Inspirational Video Featuring Denise Poole - "A Voice for Change"

        It's not always easy to stand up and speak our minds..  
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        Create Inspiring, Valuable and Insightful Content for your Audience

        Create great content.
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        My Top 8 Tips for Using Virtual Reality

        Virtual reality technology has massive potential and is just getting started. Dive in..
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        The Inspiration of Stephen Hawking

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        My 17 Best Social Media Tools, Platforms, and Applications for Influencers

        Power up your game, with some of my best tools to share your visions, voice, and ideas..
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        Chad McMillan Makes Cameo in New Far Cry 5 Video Game Teaser Trailer "Baptism", thanks to Ubisoft and DDB Paris

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        My 4 Best Hardware Tools for Social Influencers and Independent Entrepreneurs

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        How to Re-Tune your Music and Life to 432hz for Greater Peace, Love, Joy, and Harmony

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        Netflix acquires Canada and US Distribution Rights for 'The Kindergarten Teacher'

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        Is This the Next Dimension? Exploring Augmented Reality Technology

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        About CM

        Chad McMillan is a creative entrepreneur and strategic advisor with over 20 years of experience in and around the capital markets, focused on finding hidden potential in companies, ideas, markets and people, and advancing what they can become.

        Connect with me at chad@chadmc.com

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