When a new product from Microsoft debuts, it doesn’t arrive quietly. Instead it gets tracked through the R&D pipeline by trade magazines, bloggers and carefully controlled announcements from the marketing department.
Small-business innovations don’t work that way. They tiptoe into the market, heralded by minimal PR (if any) and propelled instead by the inventor’s enthusiasm.
What makes that more ironic is that small businesses these days come up with better ideas more consistently than their corporate competitors.
1.Six-foot roses2. An ATM for books
3. Removable tattoos
4. Electricity from wave power
5. Body parts from bovines
6. Street-smart filters for rainwater
7. Drug plans go generic
8. Lunch-hour liposuction
9. Your new bankers: hedge funds
10. Tap the tide
Photo by Markham Johnson.
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