Every once in awhile, I’ll put on my entrepreneurial hat on and just try to look at things from a different perspective. Here you can view my thought process when I’m trying to innovate. I usually ask myself first “what is a process in my life that takes time?” Literally anything. Time is the most […]
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” -Harper Lee Literally just a couple minutes ago, I finished a biography of Warren Buffett called “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life Book ” […]
“No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.” ― Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the […]
“The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.” ― Piero Scaruffi I recently came across an advert on one of my social media networks about an inside look that CNN did for Casper Mattresses. Phrases such as “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria sees innovation in action” and […]
“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.” –Karl Lagerfeld In essence there are two approaches when addressing the wants and needs of a consumer market. Either providing a better version of a current service; a creating a entirely new alternative. In the music industry and specifically in the personal consumer music market, […]
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow I had a strange affinity towards this book while I was reading it perhaps to two main reasons: The […]
“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.” ― Jason Fried, Rework Popped up recently in my inbox was my subscription update from Medium.com, a blogging website, where I like to post some of my articles from here time to time, but also to read articles in hope […]
“In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits” – Og Mandino Though it’s been years since I’ve read ‘The Total Money Makeover’ by Dave Ramsey, I have a feeling that ‘The Richest Man In Babylon’ must have played some sort […]
“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.” –Michael Porter Since 2005, Black Friday has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year. Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and is seen as the kickoff point for holiday shopping and is supposedly the point in which retailers go “into […]
“Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression – with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing“ Natalie Massenet When we think about creating a new product or service for society to use, when it comes down to it, our goal is to solve a problem. Unless no option is […]
