Bill Gross is the founder of the IdeaLab business incubator, with sales exceeding $435 million. It is one only tech incubator that survived the dotcom crash in its original form. IdeaLab has built many different ventures, such as:
· GoTo/Overture (became Yahoo Search Marketing) – paid inclusion search engine that was renamed Yahoo! Search Marketing after […]
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by admin
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More than 15,000 hours were put into the Good to Great project by author Jim Collins and his team. In the research, they identified companies that had been following at or below the standard market performance for at least 15 years, and then had a huge increase, dramatically outperforming the market over a 15 year […]
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by admin
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In Built to Last, the authors said:
In examining the history of visionary companies we were struck by how often they made some of their best moves not by detailed strategic planning, but rather by experimentation, trial and error, opportunism, and–quite literally accident.
This week I read an interview in Founders at Work with Paul Buchheit of […]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by admin
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All companies have goals, but many of the most successful companies set Big Hairy Audacious Goals (”BHAGs”). There is a big difference between merely having a goal, and being fully committed to a huge, daunting challenge–like a mountain to climb.
Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by admin
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According Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in Build to Last, the “tyranny of the OR” leads businesses to feel that they can only choose one option or the other, but not both, such as:
Change OR stability,
Conservative OR bold,
Low cost OR high quality,
Creative autonomy OR consistency and control,
Invest in future OR do well in short-term,
Make progress […]
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by admin
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In Built to Last, authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras talk about a hypothetical person who could look at the sun or stars and tell the exact time down to the second. That person would be an amazing “time teller”. However, wouldn’t it be much more amazing if that person created a clock which could […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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In Built to Last, the authors identified “Visionary” companies which met very rigorous standards of sustained greatness. The authors did not find any specific ideological content as being essential in these visionary companies. However, the authors did find that it was essential that the companies have a core ideology of some sort, and […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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In preparation to write the book Built to Last, authors Jim Collins and Jerry Porras and a team at Stanford University researched highly successful (“visionary”) and less successful companies for six years. Their research debunked many myths commonly held in the business world. The following are some of the myths and findings that I found […]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by admin
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When you want to buy a new car, do you go to the auto manufacturers’ websites (i.e. Ford.com or Chevrolet.com) to find out which vehicle is the best, or would you prefer to go to a 3rd-party auto website where you could read hundreds of car reviews and ratings by vehicle owners? Which information […]
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by admin
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Last year I took an insightful MBA marketing class from Dr. Gary Rhodes and Dr. Michael Swenson. The concept which stood out the most to me in their course was that we should “sell to the swing group through the eyes of the love group.”
When Dr. Rhodes and Dr. Swenson taught this principle, they […]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by admin
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