Posts Tagged ‘competition’
Your Startup Or Small Business Sucks But You Can Fix It
Ross | June 28th, 2012Don’t take it personally, but your startup or small business sucks. Most do. Here’s why. Even the best companies become complacent, over time. At its peak, Kodak controlled 90% of the US film market and was one of the most valuable brands in the world. Sony, not long ago, dominated the market for televisions, cameras, [...]
5 Things Your Small Business Should Do Today To Increase Profits
Ross | September 8th, 2009I never fully understood, until co-founding crowdSPRING, the challenges of operating a small business. There’s a lot to do but so little time to accomplish everything. Here are five practical tips from my own experience with crowdSPRING that you can implement today to increase sales and profits for your small business: 1. Evaluate What’s Working [...]
Start-up tips: 10 Tips For Evaluating Your Competitors
Ross | August 3rd, 2009If you’re working on a start-up or have an established company, there will come a time when you’ll need to evaluate your competitors. There are three components to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis. [NOTE: This post is a [...]
Pondering creativity
Mike | January 21st, 2009The opposite of creativity is cynicism. — Esa Saarinen Everybody’s got it right? Plumbers, doctors, entrepreneurs, and office clerks – creativity surrounds us. But there is the everyday creativity of folks like those I just listed, and the extraordinary creativity of the great artists, thinkers, and inventors. In his book “Creativity,” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explains the [...]
