Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Paul Mobley, MBA
From the category archives:
Ever get a call from your pharmacy telling you that a prescription is ready for pickup? Cool, huh. Ever get a call intended for someone else because their database is out-of-date? Uh, not cool. Simple solution: Use your CID detail to call back the store. Speak to a pharmacist. Inform them that the computer is [...]
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Back in August 2008 I wrote an article about Pandora. I mentioned that while the service was currently free they would likely go to a subscription format in the future. That day has arrived. (insert I told you so). You can now subscribe to Pandora for $36/year and enjoy an ad-free experience. Previously they only [...]
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Coldplay :: Good Idea – Provide a free album as a thank you to the fans. Coldplay :: Bad Idea – Failure to test your system. Online album unavailable due to a technical glitch. It’s a wonderful idea to give a free album every once and a while. However, you need to test the system [...]
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urbanspoon is an entrepreneurial success story that is worth talking about instead of all this fear mongering stuff (that I’m guilty of too). It’s a company that is lead by three guys Ethan, Adam, and Patrick. From what I can tell back in November 2006 they landed on the concept of collecting information about local [...]
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Let’s start with a really good idea. One that I hope is successful financially although there are some major risks. Pandora started as an idea called the music genome project and has become an internet radio service. [We] set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling [...]
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This is the start of a new section. Here we’ll look at good and bad business ideas and how their executed Please send in your ideas and they’ll be reviewed and possibliy included in upcoming posts.
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