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Welcome to The Never Ending Startup Podcast Episode 4- Curiosity and Professor Julius Sumner Miller- Startup Journey and Stories. Dr Jon reflects on the importance of curiosity in the startup journey and the use of methodology and philosophy to navigate the future. He recognise his own inherited traits which played out as a younger person in the form of OCD and claustrophobia and how they shaped his life path. Built to last.
The Never Ending Startup Podcast: Lessons for Modern Startup Journey & Stories of Longevity
The podcast shares Dr Jon’s insightful entrepreneurial journey, history and inspirations.
It includes interviews with ‘accelerator startups’ from The University of Newcastle’s I2N Innovation Hub about their journey and inspirations.
It also covers the state of Australia’s innovation ecology and lessons for new startups.
The podcast and book build a social and entrepreneurial framework for startup journey and longevity.
In this episode we concentrate on the theme of curiosity and its importance in the startup journey of discovery.
This JDNEST Episode’s Central Question:
Will your startup’s growth path be sedimentary or metamorphic?
Sedimentary means the laying down of layers over time like a river bed.
Metamorphic means an explosive change in a geological formation due to geological pressure and heat.
Some say startup success comes with a big bang (metamorphic).
A longer term strategy is to see your startup and its success as sedimentary; a more enduring philosophy that sees you more as a time traveller.
Dr Jonathan Drane. July 2024.
This episode covers: Curiosity in the Startup Journey (extract from upcoming book)
In this episode we return to our audiobook preview which centres around the theme of curiosity, discovery and philosophy.
I cover the intense curiosity of Professor Julius Sumner Miller who brought the world into his science lab through his own tv show and the question ‘Why is it so’.
I pause to recognise my own inherited traits which played out as a younger person in the form of OCD and claustrophobia and how they shaped my life path.
Also how I was introduced to philosophy or ‘the love of wisdom’ through attending an elective class in my MBA in the early 1990s.
Professor Julius Sumner Miller brings the world into his science lab on TV- Startup journey and stories
Take time out to time travel back to a key point in the mid century transfer of scientific knowledge to people through Television.
Dr Julius Sumner Miller takes you through science experiments that are a phenomenon in their own right.
He asks two pivotal questions ‘Why is it so” and ‘Is that not beautiful.
What is The Never Ending Startup Podcast About?
The Never Ending Startup is the story of award winning researcher, writer, innovator, historian and entrepreneur Dr Jonathan Drane and his journey through the world of high rise construction, property development and then into start up ventures, the genesis of which he discovered only recently, had its inception over half a century earlier.
Dr Jon’s Startup Journey and who inspired him
His first start up called Optimum Search was established in 1993 and still stands today with a deep quarter century history of entrepreneurial achievement and ‘catalyst research’ with some failure along the way, the latter being a central part of the DNA of its success.
The story starts in the midst of his post war 1950s upbringing as a hot housed adolescent who was introduced by his father to a strange mixture of ‘chemistry sets’ , explorer Jacques Cousteau, physicist Professor Julius Sumner Miller and Australia’s Professor Harry Messel with the latter’s famous blue science book being in nearly every high school class room.
How History of Innovation guided Dr Jon’s startup journey and stories
In this way the story also provides a lived ‘side history’ of Australia’s post war innovation path, its ‘lucky country’ label, and its subsequent ‘brain drain’ then independence and research initiatives from CSIRO to a modern innovation ecosystem.
Taking Dr Jon’s Lessons to the Modern Startup: Interviews with startups from UON I2N
Spurred by his attendance at innovation hubs and start up groups in the COVID era in 2022 and at the age of 67 Jonathan saw quite clearly what history can only reveal; that for the true start up, innovation is never ending and should not be seen as a single life defining achievement (whether good or bad) or a grab for wealth and celebrity.
The podcast includes interviews with modern startups including an exciting line up of interviews with ‘accelerator startups’ from the University of Newcastle’s Innovation Hub called I2N.
The accelerator startups cover important areas of our social, economic and environmental futures and they are used as themes for the interview related episodes.
Below are linked in posts of support for the podcast by startups I interviewed from I2N University of Newcastle Innovation Hub.
Upcoming episode 5 covers: An Interview with Ryan Muir of RAM Manufacting and new clean-tech innovation Echidna Strip
We are also proud to announce that episode 5 will include a special interview with Ryan Muir who is the co-founder of Echidna Strip and an accelerator startup with The University of Newcastle’s I2N Innovation Hub
Echidna Strip ties down carpet at its edges and is normally called Smooth Edge in the building industry.
The standard product across the industry is made of timber plywood and is subject to decay, mould, contamination and can be a health hazard.
It is a time warn material that is no longer of this time.
Echidna strip is a more environmentally relevant offering made from recyclable materials and extruded into a edging strip that is easier to install, safer and does not decay.
Dr Jon’s Interview Highlight with Ryan Muir
Where is The Never Ending Startup Being Released on Social Media
Both the book and the podcast of The Never Ending Startup will be released on Linked In and our FB Business Page;
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Link: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558719231082
Here is our Linked In Profile:
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-drane-6761a717/
Startup Journey and Importance
The never ending start up is a journey through life, innovation and one’s innate desire to create, that should never be quelled, ridiculed or sidelined due to the apparent ‘apparition’ of failure.
Taking the reader through his journey and the central inspirations that guided his life, Jonathan builds a social and entrepreneurial framework for what he calls ‘the circular start up’, the type that never ends and keeps giving no matter what obstacles occur.
The never ending startup…
Dr Jon Drane
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The Never Ending Startup: Startup Journey and Stories of Longevity. The podcast shares Dr Jon’s insightful entrepreneurial journey, history and inspirations. It includes interviews with ‘accelerator startups’ from The University of Newcastle’s I2N Innovation Hub about their journey and inspirations. It also covers the state of Australia’s innovation ecology and lessons for new startups. The podcast and book build a social and entrepreneurial framework for startup journey and longevity.