Don’t Acquire Customers, Manufacture Them
What’s the easiest way to grow your company? Acquire customers,right? I used to live by that philosophy when I first became an entrepreneur, but acquiring …
How Apple plays the pricing game Creative strategies prompt consumers to buy, buy, buy
Next time you're sitting at an airport bar and hear two businesspeople debate whether Apple is a technology or design company, chime in: "Nope. What Steve Jobs …
Paul Graham of Y Combinator
Startup Funding and the trials and
12 famous companies’ surprising starts
Quick, when you think of Nokia, what immediately comes to mind? Cell phones, right? Most of us would be surprised to know that Nokia didn't start out in the …
Combining Business Model Prototyping, Customer Development, and Social Entrepreneurship
In a nutshell, this post shall help entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs develop better business models by designing and exploring multiple alternatives, closely …
America’s 21st-Century Business Model
Current attitudes aren't too kind to the old American way of doing