Innovation
Everything You Need to Consider if You’re Experiencing Rapid Growth
Many businesses are currently confounding market expectations, experiencing large profits in the post-Brexit landscape. How these businesses treat this sudden profit expansion will be vital when securing their long-term future. If your business is currently…
Respect: Thomas Edison’s Accomplishments Go Beyond the Bulb to Modern R&D
It’s impossible to overestimate the influence that Thomas Edison’s accomplishments have had on modern life. Although Edison (1847–1931) is best known as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture,…
8 Small Business Hacks for Growth and Productivity
I view small business hacks as falling into two categories: strategies and habits. And, whether it’s a strategy or a habit, I think that what makes a hack a hack is the ease at which…
How to Win in the Corporate Venturing Game
I like to use the line “the robots are coming” when I speak about the future. Lately I’ve noticed that it makes entrepreneurs smile and executives frown. The frowns are understandable. After all, what’s a…
Automation: Are We Empowering Human Interaction or Displacing It?
The sales and marketing technology along with the social networking/selling technologies represent a huge amount of the changes that are driving sales and marketing. They relieve us of many of the tasks that used to…
Small Biz Interviews: The Seattle Grind
The colors on the walls of Porchlight Coffee & Records might have changed since its 2009 inception, but the homey, DIY feeling inside hasn’t changed a bit. When owner Zack Bolotin bootstrapped the Capitol Hill…
8 Key Principles to Keep Up with the Speed of Change
Things change so fast these days in business that your first priority as an entrepreneur is to stay current, by talking to customers, peers, and experts. Secondly, you must constantly communicate suggested changes to your…
Outsource Your Crazy
Two realities are colliding in business today, and they’re changing the way executives must think about creating new sources of growth. The first has to do with the ticking time bomb attached to large, conservative…
The Value of Feedback: How Talking to Customers Can Drive Innovation
As an entrepreneur, seeing your product gain traction for the first time is a rush. The early years of ContextMedia were some of the most exciting. During the summer of 2006, as rising juniors in…
How Leaders at Large Companies Can Think Like a (Genius) Entrepreneur
I deeply believe there is a fundamental difference between the way entrepreneurs, and the people who work for large companies, see the world. As I said last time, entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors have “abundant thinking”—they see…
