Archive for June 21st, 2004
Gmail Invite Contest, Followup
Thanks to everyone who entered the Gmail Invite Contest. By good fortune, Google gave me a few more invites, so everyone who entered received one. If still don’t have one (and want one), I have more.
Serial Entrepreneur: “Find the customer first, discover how much the product is worth to the market, and then worry about turning it into a global business.”
Disassociative Business Planning
Serial Entrepreneur: “It is easy for business owners to fall into the trap of associating their business with themselves and invariably attempt something sexy from which they can derive intellectual stimulation and social respect. The technique of Disassociative Business Planning specifically targets this issue and brings it to the surface to eliminate alternate subconscious motivation, [...]
George Will, writing in the Washington Post, compares oil to pistachios to explain the current oil situation: “Russell Roberts, an economist, says: Imagine that you love pistachio nuts and are given a room filled 5 feet deep with them. But you must eat them in the room and must leave the shells. When will you [...]
David Bayless: One of the major obstacles to effective new business building by large companies is the “Big Opportunity” trap. To varying degrees, we are caught in it. It works like this: “We’re a $20BB company. If the new business proposal is not a $1BB opportunity, we con’t have time to pursue it. The consequence [...]
Every Business is a Commodity Business
Duct Tape Marketing: “If you can’t find a way to differentiate your business from every other business that says it does what you do. And, if you can’t communicate that difference in a way that really matters to a narrow target market, then you’re basically in the commodity business. If I can’t tell how one [...]
Building Entrepreneurship in Small Communities
EDPro Weblog: “Here’s a concise, practical guide to best practices for building entrepreneurship in smaller communities. The Kauffman Foundation drafted the report: Grassroots Rural Entrepreneurship, Best Practices for Small Communities. Download a copy. Go.” via Brewed Fresh Daily.
First private spacecraft flies into space
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Blog Business World.
