Entrepreneurship and Risk Management for 2010

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Risk Management

Entrepreneurship as risk management Reduce risk to known, small quantities Types of risk Deep knowledge of customer, product development Copy, copy, copy, and know where to innovate Criteria for success rather than mere preference

Voices in my Head, Exteriorized

Much of these discussions are more to let the voices out of my head where the conversation is being [...]

Beauty, Design Constraints, Innovation – Podcast

Beauty, Design Constraints and Innovation

Jeff McNeill podcast for 2009-12-19.

Why beauty, like real estate, should be a part of the marketing budget. What is the relationship between beauty and innovation?

Invention, Innovation, Marketing

Invention, Innovation, Marketing – Jeff McNeill Podcast 2009-12-17

Invention is something brand new. Innovation is a new dimension in performance. Marketing is the creation of a customer.

These last two definitions come from Peter Drucker and Innovation comes from his book “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” 1985. An excellent read.

Why we are discussing the Flying Car in terms of [...]

The Art of Pricing – Three Simple Strategies

There is a long and storied history regarding pricing of goods and services. Wikipedia has a nice overview article with linked sub-articles.

Simplicity – The Rule of Three

Complexity is managed easiest with simplicity. In this case all the various Pricing “strategies” can be summed under three specific uses of pricing:

Pricing as a competitive weapon Pricing as a [...]

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The Brand Gap – Classic Design Presentation

The Brand GapView more presentations from coolstuff.

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Experience is the Product – Peter Merholz Slideshow

Experience Is The ProductView more presentations from peterme.

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Personal Brand – A Brand Called You – Online Influencer

This blog posting came out of some questions that Pomai asked me about “branding yourself”.

Brand Yourself

The term “brand yourself” doesn’t actually make sense except in a colloquial way. We are “always” “branding ourselves” if by that we mean communicating with others in ways that create or manage a particular “brand”–a category in the mind of [...]