Top 5 Startup Tips from Jay-Z « The Metric System
A fun post of business tips pulled from the lyrics of various across Jay-Z’s catalog.
Seen a lot of these around before, but some are new and extremely awesome - 10 Amazing Office Designs Around the World
Anyone that’s looking to spend a little extra on me for Xmas - Eames Lounge (via Sit4Less.com)
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 is about delivering the best product for the lowest price with the best customer service right away. How do you guess your way into any of those four criteria?
I have no desire to scale up or get bigger. My desire is to produce the best food in the world. And if in doing so, more people come to our corner and want stuff, then heaven help me figure out how to meet the need without compromising the integrity.
As soon as you grasp for that growth, you’re gonna view your customer differently, you’re gonna view your product differently, you’re gonna view your business differently. Everything that is the most important – you’re going to view that differently.
” 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 as he is.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 “relevant” to modern start ups. We’re really in the process now of redeveloping all of those assets that are crucial to startups, while realizing it just takes time.
