Podcast appearances and mentions of jonathan sun

You've heard the stats before: 90% of startups fail and the majority of the time it's because aspiring entrepreneurs pursue the wrong business idea.Pretotyping is a new way of increasing the chance of success by catching bad ideas early and uses creative, manual experiments to get YODA (your own data) to validate concepts and steer product development.We've been advocating for a data-driven approach to product development for some years now so we are super excited to have Jonathan on. He's here to tell us all about the pretotyping method and to see if we can adapt any of his expertise into our everyday startups.

Jonathon Sun tells Dan about a hot new methodological approach in product development called Pretotyping.

Joining me this episode is Jonathan Sun. Jonathan is the founder of Nifty. Jonathan tells you more about preotyping a new way to validate your product or service cheaper and quicker.

In this episode, Emily interviews Jonathan Sun, a second-year PhD student at Yale University. Jonathan purchased a house in New Haven after his first year in graduate school. He shares the process he used to search for and ultimately go under contract on a home, including applying for various incentive programs. But his home ownership goal was nearly derailed; his original mortgage lender pulled out because his fellowship income isn't reported on a W-2, and he had to scramble to find another lender at the last second.

  Today our podcast connects with Jonathan Sun, author (under the pen name jomny sun) of the graphic book everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too (HarperPerennial); author behind the Twitter projects @jonnysun, @tinycarebot, and @tinydotblot; Ph.D. candidate and co-creator of The Online Humor Conversation Series at MIT; former editor-in-chief of the Yale School of Architecture journal, Retrospecta 36; playwright; architect; comedian; and artist. Producer: Jon-Barrett Ingels and Kevin Staniec Manager: Sarah Becker Host: Jon-Barrett Ingels Guest: Jonathan Sun Photo: Billy Wong

Jonathan Sun is a doctoral student in Urban Studies at MIT – but he’s better known as @jonnysun, the alien character twitter phenomenon with nearly 500,000 followers. Jonny Sun’s profile self-describes as “aliebn… Continue reading →

“Humor is a tool for inclusion and for making everyone realize: we’re all together on this.” Jonny Sun has formed a devoted community of almost half a million followers on Twitter — tweeting through his alter ego, a lonely alien who views the world as an outsider, with curiosity and wonder. His tweets alternate between silly jokes and insightful, almost Zen-like, poetry. Through his words, he makes the world feel a little less lonely.

Jonathan Sun is an emerging Canadian playwright whose works have been performed at the Yale School of Drama, the Hart House Theatre in Toronto, and as part of Theatre Lab's FIRST SIGHT Performance Series. He is an advocate for interdisciplinary creative practice and works across the fields of theatre, music, visual and installation art, design research, architecture, engineering, new media, and comedy. He is currently a PhD candidate at MIT, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and a recipient of the MIT De Florez Fund for Humor. His Twitter account @jonnysun, an ongoing character and comedy project, has over 175,000 followers to date and has been published in NPR, The Washington Post, The Independent, Vice, The Hollywood Reporter, Buzzfeed, Playboy, Cosmo, The Yale Herald, and was nominated for the 2015 Shorty Award for Comedian of the Year.http://www.jonathan-sun.com/ Twitter: @jonnysunStageworthy:http://www.stageworthypodcast.com Twitter @stageworthyPod Facebook: http://facebook.com/stageworthyPod