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Don’t just try to steal a share of the existing market, create a new one - (37signals)
Target people who have never used a product like yours before. (It’s what Clayton Christensen calls “competing against nonconsumption.” ) These people don’t know a solution exists or the ones they’ve tried were too expensive or confusing. These folks aren’t picky (yet). They just want something simple that works. That means you can win by creating something that’s good enough to meet these basic needs. There’s always more customers on the low/simple end than the high/expensive end.
Boston’s Fenway Park turns 100 on April 20 and the Red Sox marketing machine is cranking out a season’s worth of promos, events, a coffee table book--and even a symphony recording. Are the Red Sox in danger of over-romanticizing (and over-commercializing) America's most classic ballpark? READ MORE ›
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The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. - BusinessWeek
"We live in an era of rapid innovation." I'm sure you've heard that phrase, or some variant, over and over again. The evidence appears to be all around us: Google ( GOOG ), Facebook, Twitter, smartphones, flat-screen televisions, the Internet itself.
CoolBusinessIdeas.com - New Business Ideas, Innovations And Opportunities Around The World
Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture has designed the East Village live work studio in New York . With such a small amount of space to work with, they managed to excel in the organization and layout of this cool NYC condo. A sculpted wood-paneled central service core holds the kitchen, bath, closets, and sleeping loft. “A bedroom loft creates space for a roomy walk-in closet below, while stair risers conceal a series of built-in drawers.Inventing a New Kind of Business
"In Search of Excellence" and "Good to Great" have had the greatest popularity and impact, but virtually no one actually does what they say, because "what's measured gets done." Tom Peters and Bob Waterman wrote In Search of Excellence in 1982. Jim Collins wrote Good to Great in 2001. The core of both books was that business success means: "get good people. Treat them well."
Now that I’ve had a few hours to get acquainted with the new Sidekick LX , I figured some preliminary comments were in order. My overall impression of the Sidekick LX is still positive, but I’ve found a few things to nitpick about. So, without further ado, here we gooooo! Screen: It’s absolutely brilliant and hands down the best screen available on a mobile handset today. The closest thing to it right now is the BlackBerry 8900 and to some extent the BlackBerry Bold .
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Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org
Twitter is one of the world's most radical management innovators. It's revolutionary because it brings 21st Century DNA roaring raucously to life: it is a living expression of the new principles of organization and management we've been discussing . Here are Twitter's ten rules for radical innovators (which have, just maybe, had a bit of influence when it comes to Twitter). 1. Ideals beat strategies. What infuriates people most about Twitter is that it seems to have no plan, scheme, or angle.