Generating Ideas — forming an idea factory
Generating ideas consistently for driving business has been a core management challenge. Among a few others, Idea Lab, Bell Labs, and Edison’s Menlo Park Lab are idea factories. Every manager…
Startups
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Startup Success–Reoccurring Patterns from Examples
Startups beacon us in creating fortune out of ideas. But more than 90 percent of startups, upon getting funding, fail to reach profit and fold up within five years. The…
Scale up startups – crafting systematic path
How to scale up Startups is a daunting challenge. The growth of startups into mega-corporations like Apple, Sony, Microsoft, GE, Amazon, Google, or Intel is the inspiration for entrepreneurs. Invariably,…
Startup Recipe – empathize, reinvent and scale
Is not startup a heroic art or Eureka moment? Does startup recipe sound absurd? Perhaps, it does. Surprisingly, there are reoccurring patterns in the journey of Carl Benz, Edison, Steve…
Digital Entrepreneurship – easy to start, tough to scale
Starting from how we read books, watch movies and pay bills, transformations out of digital technologies have been popping up. The fusion of digital technologies forms a powerful technology core.…
Technological Economies of Scale – fuel startup success
Apple, Microsoft, Intel, and many other technology companies invest billions in developing new products and releasing the subsequent versions. But they charge only a tiny fraction of that R&D cost…
High-profit Ideas of Lens Making – a lesson for startups
We all are after business ideas with low investment and high profit. Where are those high-profit ideas? Here is a shining story from Taiwan—Largan. In iPhone’s value chain, which company…
Startups from Creative Outburst to Mad Race of Valuation
With the given mad race, the meaning of startup deserves clarification. They are small firms. But how do they differ from other small outfits, such as neighborhood coffee shops? Startups…
Startup Success from Scale—what it takes
Startups are after Innovation. The economy of scale effect is at the core of profiting from innovation. Thus, startup success from the scale effect demands the development of intellectual assets,…
Profiting from Innovation Demands Passion for Winning and Perfecting
Education, R&D, publications, creativity, and patents are important. However, to leverage them in taking ideas to market at profit, culture matters. In fact, profiting from Innovation demands Passion for Perfection,…
Winning Strategy of Apple vs Tesla
Neither Apple nor Tesla invented their great products. Apple redesigned smartphones with a unique feature of the multitouch user interface. Similarly, Tesla redesigned automobiles with new technology cores like electric…
Avoiding Silicon Wealth Annihilation
Silicon has been a trustworthy source of Wealth. The Market Economy accumulated this wealth in the hands of a few. This wealth is now flowing to nurturing ideas for building…