“Because we are smaller we innovate faster.” I read this phrase recently and it got me thinking about big firms and small firms and the pros and cons that each business model brings a client. The small guys say “we can be just as good as the big guys” when really with the democratization of…
We have many trees in our backyard so I read Jason Fried’s article on how a business is like an apple tree with great interest (Inc. Magazine, When Good Ideas Bear Fruit; February 2013). We just pruned our trees with the knowledge that, as Jason puts it we were “favoring what is left and helping…
Danny Meyer, the CEO of Union Square Hospitality, participated in an Inc. Magazine Founders Forum with Scott Gerber and he talked about the fact that innovation has a very short shelf life and that good ideas will quickly be replicated by copy cats. But what he stressed was the safe guard against copy cats and…