December 2009
6 posts
ReadItFor.me →
Came across this tonight. It’s a great site that weekly takes a business book, summarizes it and posts a video overview. Genius!
Customer who?
I’m continually blown away by the amount of companies out there both big and small, old and new that don’t talk with their customers, users or readers. Companies who make important business decisions based upon a whim with little more background than “well we think they’re going to approach us like this”. Guessing isn’t a strategy. Like it or not business today...
“I have no desire to scale up or get bigger. My desire is to produce the best...”
– Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms owner via 37signals - We just watched Food Inc. the other day. A great flick if you want to start thinking about where your food comes from and Joel was amazing to listen & watch. His farm seems awesome and I hope there’s more and more farmers out there doing...
November 2009
7 posts
Startup Ecosystems Take Time →
A great post regarding the long process a region goes through in order to become a “startup friendly” area. I think West Michigan is in that first decade step of trying to find some success stories in order to build experience and talent.
The area has a great historic entrepreneurial history. The problem is that most of it’s is over half century old and may no longer be...
“…the most irritating thing of all about management gurus: that their...”
– The three habits… | The Economist
