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Category Archives: Business
I Will NOT Buy Your Idea
December 16, 2007 – 12:05 am
Last year I wrote a post titled “I Will Buy Your Idea“. It was a tongue-in-cheek post that was trying to make this point:
Ideas have no monetary value. The worth is in the implementation.
Dane Carlson picked it up and posted this on his Business Opportunities Weblog:
“Finally, someone recognizes the true value of a great idea: [...]
Coming Soon…
December 13, 2007 – 12:33 am
should be open just after Christmas!!
429 N Thompson LaneMurfreesboro, TN
Entrepreneurial Financial Spreadsheets
December 12, 2007 – 9:16 am
As part of the redesign of The Entrepreneurial Mind, Jeff Cornwall has released a set of financial spreadsheets for starting businesses. If you are thinking of starting a business, you will want to use these or something like these.
When we opened our first retail store we were given a similar spreadsheet tailored to the specific [...]
Illuminating Green Business
November 27, 2007 – 11:11 pm
As you may or may not know, we are in the process of opening our second Plato’s Closet. This store is going to be in Murfreesboro, TN (one of the fastest growing communities in the area). When we first started thinking about business ownership we wanted to make sure that we were starting [...]
The Usefulness of Aggregate Statistics
November 16, 2007 – 9:16 am
I love aggregate statistics. Sure, I know this makes me a dweeb, but I am cool with that (and the Harley in my back yard helps my aggregate dweeb score to stay in check).
There is an article on Time.com today that is talking about what an “average American” is. There is a really [...]
Why Sprint is Losing Customers (and market share)
November 4, 2007 – 10:43 pm
I buy a new laptop about every 18 months. This has been the case since my Dad bought me my first laptop in 1998 (an IBM ThinkPad 310ed, it was a great computer). It is almost like clockwork that I need a new laptop to be the most effective at my job [...]
Measuring Performance
October 25, 2007 – 9:36 am
One thing I have learned from being a partner in a retail store is the importance of measuring performance. The “one true metric” for a small business owner is “how much money is in the bank”. Unfortunately, if you only watch that metric you don’t see problems until it is too late. You [...]
Distributed Branding
October 21, 2007 – 9:55 pm
I have had a very interesting problem recently that is both technical and philosophical. Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to post about it until now. At the heart are some difficult questions that “brand managers” are going to be struggling with over the next few years.
The question is this, who owns your [...]
Brackish E-Commerce
October 18, 2007 – 8:28 am
There is an article in today’s Tennessean about how the lines of local retail and e-commerce are getting further blurred. It is this neat retail ecosystem similar to the brackish water where a river meets the ocean.
The article talks about how the three local malls owned by CBL Properties (Cool Springs, Hickory Hollow, and [...]
