Review: Breakthrough Entrepreneurship by Jon Burgstone & Bill Murphy, Jr.—What’s the entrepreneurial process and how does it work?
In 1998, Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu started SupplierMarket, which became the first Internet marketplace for customer-made manufactured parts. They sold it for $1.1 billion 362 days later, setting a record as the fastest billion-dollar startup ever. You would think...Read moreGrammar is a piano I play by ear,
since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.
All I know about grammar is its infinite power.
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence,
as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera
alters the meaning of the object photographed.—Joan Didion
The perfect storm that creates a bestseller (part four)
(If you haven’t read the previous posts in this series yet, here are parts one, two, and three) As you likely remember reading in the first three parts of this series, bestsellers—books that sell hundreds of thousands of copies, if not a million or more—happen...Read moreThe difference between the right word
and the almost-right word is really a large matter—
’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.—Mark Twain
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