It made me more confident in what I've been doing. For example, there's a project I'm working on now involving life sciences technology. We wrote a b-plan that's "good enough," and now we've started forming partnerships with companies that will benefit from our technology (and benefit us of course). Instead of paralysis by analysis, we're going around to key companies and showing them our technology. We're basically saying, "We have this great hammer and we're looking for the right nails. How could this help you?"

My formal business education would say we're doing this wrong – that we should do extensive market research and find the market opportunity that has the highest net present value. But seeing similarities in what we're doing and the successful entrepreneurs have done makes me more confident in my intuition.

It would also be interesting to hear what concrete actions or behaviors you changed as a result of this? Or did it drift back to being a mental frame of reference, but not one that led to immediate changes? Just curious…