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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 In 1933, baseball card collectors were frustrated. For some reason, they found it impossible to complete their Goudy Gum 240-card set. No matter how many packages of cards they purchased, they failed to find card number #106, which featured Napoleon Lajoie.
Enterprising collectors who wrote Goudy and voiced their frustrations [...]
Pour And Stir I – In Pursuit Of The Ideal Business Model
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Note: This is Part I in a three-part series on The Perfect Business Model. Click here for Part II, and Part III
Authentic, hand-crafted Persian rugs always include intentional imperfections. They are said to be, “Perfectly Imperfect, and Precisely Imprecise.” The same is true with many crafts and architecture created in Muslim [...]
Fast Follower III – First Mover Disadvantage
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009This is part III of a three part series. Click here for Part I and Part II
John Fitch was first. He spent the majority of his adult life fruitlessly attempting to capitalize on the novelty and uniqueness of his invention. Unable to raise funds from wealthy individuals, he solicited $300 from a [...]
Free Advice, Worth Half The Price – Properly Compensating Entrepreneurial AddVisors
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Properly Compensating Entrepreneurial AddVisors
Innoventors – How Entrepreneurs Change The Rules Of The Game
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Not all flops are failures. Take Dick Fosbury’s for instance. He began experimenting with alternative, unconventional methods of high jumping as a high school sophomore. Rejecting the straddling approach, which had been the standard for the prior forty years, Dick tweaked the old-fashioned scissor kick, eventually morphing it into a new [...]
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