Wednesday February 22, 2012
December 28, 2011
Primo Orpilla, Principal of Studio O+A: “There’s a certain energy that a start-up has that’s like lightning in a bottle, but companies lose it over time as they get mired in their own systems. So how do you hold on to that? How do you keep companies in that start-up mode? It’s the programming aspect of it; it’s figuring out where all the different groups need to be.”
Source: “Acting Like a Start-Up” by Andrew Blum
Labels: Business
November 16, 2011
Author Ann Patchett, Co-Owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville: “In a smaller store … you are the person making the choices to get really good books. You are the one who, by your intelligent ordering and good reading, is sort of cutting through a lot of the junk and bringing books that people really want to read. … We’ve all had the experience of going into a three-story Barnes & Noble and saying, ‘I didn’t really find anything I wanted read.’ But you can go in to a small store with an intelligent staff … [and] well-displayed, well-chosen books, and come out with five books that you’re dying to read. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
Source: “Ann Patchett Opens Parnassus Books In Nashville” by NPR
Labels: Business
December 4, 2010
The people who successfully start independent businesses (franchises, I think are a different thing) do it because we have no real choice in the matter. The voice in our heads won’t shut up until we discover if we’re right, if we can do it, if we can make something happen. This is an art, our art, and to leave it bottled up is a crime.
Source: How can you do it?!
Labels: Business
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