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Seth Godin’s blog provides fun and inspirational topics. It enriches you with skills and ideas of how to improve your competitive advantages, as well as providing one with successful tools and knowledge to succeed in the competitive business market. Seth has a rich background in marketing. He founded Yoyodyne , one of the first internet […]

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Linkedin launched in May with great success. On the first day it started trading with an initial price of $45 and by the end of the first day it reached $122.70. Just two weeks ago, it was Groupon’s turn to raise capital and they too, showed gains on their first day of trading starting at $20, and […]

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Chan criticizes the inefficiency that stands behind any business decision that is for sustainability. Chan “conveniently” neglects to point out that sustainability not only brings profit, but also depletes resources. If Governments and business firms focus only on present profit gain, and ignore the “sustainability” side, there will be no future business for anyone, because […]

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Back in 2000, Nike purchased software (i2 demand-planning software) that supposedly can foresees the quantity recommended to produce by evaluating past sales.  Sounds good?  The forecast caused Nike a loss of $100 million! The idea is logical. Nike is such a huge company that it is hard to create orders based on intuition alone; however, trusting a computer […]

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Bellack points out the importance of a supply chain to a company, however she neglects to mention why it is important? It is important to note that the reason the supply chain is so important is because the supply chain is the heart and soul of the company- without it there is no company! If the marketing and sales teams […]

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“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conard Hilton – Entrepreneurship success Some call it luck, others call it destiny, but evidently there are some people out there that simply know how to do the right thing. This is the art of the entrepreneur […]

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For some reason, many mistake a free market as synonymous to capitalism. The 2008 crisis proves that this is not the case! Free markets provide perfect competition, letting the market regulate itself, whereas capitalism now is made up of 5 gigantic companies controlling the entire market! If that is not enough, then those 5 companies take the money that the small […]

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While all over the news there are reports are showing images of Steve Jobs and his great success, he also experienced FAILURES. Steve Job’s success did not come easily! While studying in college, he had to drop out after the first term, because his adopted parents were unable to finance his tuition fees. Yet Steve Jobs […]

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This week I had an accounting class, in which I asked my fellow students if I could borrow their notes because I had missed a class.  I asked five different people and received a creative variety of excuses why they could not give me their notes. Embarrassed, I ended up asking my professor if I couldborrow […]

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  As a great lover and supporter of the electric car, I was furious to see that even though GM and Honda had  created perfect cars back in 1990, and the pilot customers who had received the cars were all extremely satisfied and wished to purchase them once the lease expired, yet  GM and Honda called […]

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