Archive for October 17th, 2005
Forbes: Cacophony reigns inside Michael Biddle’s 45,000-square-foot recycling plant in Richmond, Calif. Pieces of fax machines, telephones, keyboards and cell phones are fed into green hoppers atop 20-foot-tall chutes. Pipes and conveyor belts run everywhere. Amid the whirring fans and clanging grinders, you can pluck out the sounds of metal clinking as it gets sucked [...]
Selling Old Magazine Pages Online
Seth Godin found, and bought, a copy of the the first big full page advertisement he ever did in a magazine. Where’d he find it? Someone is selling it on eBay. (Not any more, I bought it for $5). This guy buys old magazines and sells them online, one page at a time! Is there [...]
Reflections of a BizDrivenLife: Ideas are a dime a dozen. If you have new initiatives being undertaken, and you are not getting the results you need, maybe it is not that the idea was no good. When you open a new seafood restaurant in the neighborhood, and it is not doing well, maybe it is [...]
Be Original When Starting Your Own E-Business
Small Business Computing: Is there anything that really distinguishes your site from similar online merchants? If you’re merely going to sell widgets like the 14 other well-established widget sites do, your ‘me-too’ approach will limit your success. Find some way to set yourself apart so that people shop with you instead of with your competition. [...]
Great Companies Aren’t Born, They’re Grown
37Signals: Apple started in a garage. Dell started in a dorm room. Starbucks started with a single store. Nike started out of a car trunk. Crate & Barrel started with a single store without budget for displays so they used shipping crates and barrels to display their products. Anthony Maglica started making Mag Lights in [...]
