Many start-ups piggyback on another company to market their product or services early on.Microsoft, eBay, Oracle, Facebook and Apple are just a few technology companies around whom entire ecosystems have grown. There are hundreds of successful, profitable...
Many years ago, Intel chief and sometime Stanford Business School lecturer Andy Grove wrote a book about why industry leaders should continue to worry about innovation happening in office parks and garages. Most start-ups are established to fill an unmet need...
Is anyone else a little freaked out by how much LinkedIn can tell you about a company?I have been a fan of LinkedIn, both as a smart business model and as a service I use on a regular basis in my consulting practice. The down economy seems to have done wonders...
If you know me, you know that I love yoga and practice several times a week. To find the classes that work best for me, I visit several studios, and have seen how their pricing models have changed. Most yoga studio owners are not MBA-types, even here in Silicon...
I just finished reading Free: The Future of a Radical Price, the new book by Chris Anderson. I have been looking forward to reading it since I first heard about it more than a year ago, and I was not disappointed. The single most useful thing for me in...
