Archive for May 18th, 2004
“Unconventional” Spark Fear in Business
Business Pundit: “Talk is cheap. I guess that is why so many people talk about being great but never do anything about it. I have faced this myself as my partner and my employees talk about doing great things, then decide to play it safe and take a more conventional route. I. Don’t. Understand. Sometimes [...]
Updated Business Opportunities
Need an idea? The sixteen most recently updated business opportunities on this site are: Elliott & Co. Appraisers, Famous Sam’s Restaurant & Sports Bar, Great Earth Vitamins, Studio 6 Extended Stay Lodging, Critter Control, FACES Cosmetics, Bark Busters Dog Training, The Medicine Shoppe, Complete Music, Full Circle Image, Promentum LLC, The Goddard School, Huntington Learning [...]
FC Now: “The Doblin Group, a Chicago-based consultancy led by Larry Keeley, offers a diagram of the 10 types of innovation that they consider.” Doblin Group: Business model Dell revolutionized the personal computer business model by collecting money before the consumer’s PC was even assembled and shipped (resulting in net positive working capital of seven [...]
Bring Us Your Small, Unloved Start-Ups
NY Times: “Silicon Valley is littered with hundreds of former start-ups trapped inside larger technology companies that are no longer happy with the ventures they snapped up in the acquisitions frenzy of the 1990′s. Now a pair of Silicon Valley-based venture capitalists have opened an unusual $250 million fund intended to buy and rehabilitate such [...]
BigCos Are Not The Place For Creativity
Want to do creative work? Start your own business. Anita Sharpe explains in this Worthwhile post that there’s no room left for creativity in big companies: “At large companies, you lose sight of creating a product,” said Siegel, who is in the midst of launching the Gospel Music Channel. For me, that sentence summed up [...]
ZDNet: “Microsoft also said it will partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration to sponsor a set of programs and a show, dubbed Microsoft Across America, designed to make technology more accessible to small businesses. The show will travel across the nation and attempt to better inform small businesses about Microsoft’s products, including its Office [...]
