Entries Tagged as 'business'

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Why Business Needs More Random Experiments

The “hard problems” are advertising, pricing, and less defined processes such as new product introductions, he said. “These are activities that usually go on in a firm without any real, accurate quantitative ways of measuring whether or not what you’re doing is working,” Levitt said. “Pricing may be the best example of all,” he said. [...]

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Can Entrepreneurs Be Made?

via techcrunch.com “Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made. And they aren’t anything like you think they are. My team surveyed 549 successful entrepreneurs. We found that the majority didn’t have entrepreneurial parents. They didn’t even have entrepreneurial aspirations while going to school. They simply got tired of working for others, had a great idea they wanted [...]

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Watterson predicts the bailout

Via Newmark’s Door

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Hammerfest LNG refinery built on floating barge

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Want…

…a nationwide Crossfit style fitness chain. Each location would have a linked passcard system, so that a your fees go to each location in proportion to the amount of time you attend that facility. …an open source virus checking system, financed via subscriptions. You only get automatic updates if you subscribe. …a blog ad network [...]