Posts Tagged ‘Developing an Idea’
How Many Innovations Are Carefully Planned?
Most innovations come from responding to a customer’s needs, or finding a niche where products need improvement or extension. It is rare to innovate using a blank sheet of paper in a room with bare walls and no other contributors.
Read More If You Love What You Do the Money Will Come?
You have heard this advice at least once: Do what you love and the money will follow or do what you love and it won’t feel like work. It seems easy but it’s not.
Read More The 3-Step Dance: Creating a Great Company
Creating a great company in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that the entrepreneur knows what’s best for the customer. I’ve developed the three step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea.
Read More Lessons from the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery
Jamaican-born Lowell Hawthorne’s recipe for entrepreneurial success has been to offer West Indian natives living in the U.S. a taste of home.
Read More Build a Company—Not Just a Product
Some businesses are built around a single idea. And sometimes that idea is just too small a slice of the big picture to be interesting to investors.
Read More Newsjacking for Content
Creating new, engaging content is often an uphill battle for marketers. One way to continuously produce fresh content that your readers will find interesting is “newsjacking.”
Read More Kickboard: New Orleans Small Business Startup
Small business opportunities abound in the poorest and most needy areas as well as the most affluent. Everyone knows that old saying that tells us necessity is the mother of invention.
Read More How to Create a Full-Color, Full-Contact Body of Work, Courtesy of Beyonce
Much to the Internet’s amazement last week, without any prior buzz or warning, Beyoncé dropped a brand new album straight to iTunes, complete with 10 brand new videos.
Read More How to Get Startup Ideas by Interviewing Customers
The first step in building a product people love is to identify a problem that some group of people have. Solutions to clearly defined customer pain points make for the most compelling value propositions. You don’t need to start with a “startup idea.”
Read More Entrepreneurial Lessons from Detroit
Guaranteed lifelong employment and the comfortable pensions enjoyed by our parents and grandparents are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. The once-risky path of entrepreneurship seems increasingly less fraught with peril when compared with the ever-present prospect of layoffs faced by regular employees.
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