When it comes to taking action and create a business out of a business idea, people come up with all sorts of thoughts that hold them back from getting anything done. They ask, i.e., “should I start a business even if I am inexperienced?” and other made up soft-barriers. Starting a business is as simple […]
Here’s to Quality: A tale of beer and business
Right now there’s a growing trend. It started as a fad some years ago, but it just kept growing. And growing. It’s disingenuous to dismiss this as a fad or trend. It’s time to recognize it for it is – a permanent fixture in the economy with a growing market. I’m talking about beer. More […]
Cash in on What’s Coming
I’m a bit of a futurist geek. And while I’m not particularly prone to subscribing to prophesy (which is mostly bad news anyway), I do pay attention to visionaries and thinkers and others who make it their business to predict where things are going—at least until this infamous singularity point, at which none of us […]
Airwoot: Taming the social media beast
Social media. It’s a behemoth. There’s the technical definition of what exactly social media is, and there are plenty of binary-fluent experts out there that can provide the specific definition. Social scientists and political scientists have their own definition. The business sector has its own way to define it… and so on and so forth. […]
The Entrepreneurship Game: Time for Bushnell’s Law
Do you remember the game Frogger? If you’re of a certain age, you probably spent far too many hours with an Atari game controller in your hand, hopping across an electronic road to avoid being squished into amphibian oblivion. What was the secret to safely getting where you wanted to go? Timing. Nolan Bushnell has […]
Annoying Morning Ritual Spawns a $165 Million Company
A few weeks ago I wrote about the effectiveness of guerrilla advertising and how that can overcome some of the more conventional limitations a start-up might have in competing for advertising space. I highlighted the sensational ad from The Dollar Shave Club that went viral in seconds and launched an empire in men’s grooming products. […]
