Ade in Business

I ran across this interesting Starbucks fact (via Seth Godin):
It wasn’t until several years after the company was up and running that they realized it would be a good idea to sell any beverages at all. All they sold was beans.
It’s inspirational to think that a successful company like Starbucks had a much different business [...]

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As you might have noticed, I decided to jump on the AdSense bandwagon and add advertising to my blog. This isn’t because I think I’ll make anything more than $0.01 a year from it, but because I wanted to experiment and learn more about using AdSense in a live environment.
I had signed up a [...]

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One of the effects I’ve experienced from thinking a lot more about the Enron case is having a greater suspicion that corruption permeates our government. It’s hard to ignore the hand that the government had in providing the Enron (and other companies) the means to take advantage of Californians, and their unwillingness to act [...]

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One of the things that worries me is that one of the big guns like Microsoft, Google or Yahoo will announce a product that competes head-to-head with one of my mine, or makes a move that otherwise makes mine obsolete in some way. It’s nothing that I lose sleep over, but something that crosses [...]

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