A friend asked me this in twitter: What to do when you’re launching a company and competition launches 3 months before you ? Build on top of what the competition is doing. Slipstream. Let them pave the way, let them break the ice, and you follow along with a different angle, or different spin. I’ve [...]
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Dammit, I don’t get it: What is that makes people think that once a business idea has been developed as a business that then it’s over, nobody else can do it, and anybody who tries to is a lesser human? You know what I’m talking about. Two or three people brainstorming about business and business [...]
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I’ve heard several interviews with Thomas Friedman lately, and over the last week I bought and read his latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. I think the book is something that startups and small businesses should read. It strikes me as about as reasonable and accurate a projection of the future as is possible in [...]
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Readers, I hope you don’t mind. I get lured into LinkedIn answers sections these days, and I was browsing there when this exchange came up. I really think it’s worth sharing. The question was: Any suggestions for someone with notebooks full of possibly novel storefront business, product and Web 2.0 ideas but no entrepreneurial experience [...]
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They’re calling it Ideablob. Sponsored by Advanta, a credit card company focusing on small business. That’s at www.ideablob.com. Submit ideas, view ideas, and give advice. Some of them are interesting ideas, and the site is kind of fun. It’s also a good reminder of one of the more important principles of new businesses: The idea [...]
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Today’s New York Times includes a story by Sharon McDonnell called “Snoozing at the Terminal”: “Sleeping overnight in [the] airport has become enough of a phenomenon that it has inspired one recent novel, Dear American Airlines. The author, Jonathan Miles, said he was spurred to write the book after an unscheduled overnight stay at O’Hare [...]
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