The April ruling by the Supreme Court in the KSR v Teleflex case has a major impact on the small business community. You need to be familiar. Many businesses and individuals have filed for and gotten patents recently which to the common observer seemed “obvious.” Whole businesses have been built on defending these patents. Often times […]
Starting a business, even a small one, is energy intensive. The enthusiasm and commitment of the entrepreneurs can be exhilarating. Those things can go a long way toward helping people over the difficult times each business will encounter. But, they don’t last forever.
Where can you find the extra energy and motivation to handle the demands […]
In The Devil Wears Prada Meryl Streep plays Miranda Priestly, a character with real commitment. She is committed to her industry, her company and the highest level of excellence. Most managers I’ve talked to about that character give me some song and dance about how mean she is. She is not a […]
WARNING!! WARNING!! Danger Will Robinson! Danger!
If a person, previously unknown to you, came up to you on a busy street in a city that you were new to and tried to sell you a bridge, would you buy it? I hope not.
If you googled or yahooed or aoled something on the Internet and read it would […]
I’m out in Boston visiting my wife’s extended family. I haven’t seen most of these people in more than 25 years. I’ve heard about from time to time as I’m sure they’ve heard about me, but we never spent much time together. Everybody out here is part of my mother-in-laws family from there I could […]
Please excuse the odd formatting. I’m working through a hotel connection and it’s giving me a few problems.
Yesterday I flew out to Boston on my hometown airline, Midwest Express. What a treat. This is an airline that provides first rate service. I’m talking wide seats; plenty of leg-room; 2 hot, fresh-baked, chocolate chip cookies; clean […]
My maternal grandfather used to drive everybody nuts. He would hire people to do work for him, like a plumber, and then argue with them about the work they were doing. If you hire an expert to do some work for you supposedly you are doing it because you do not have the where with […]
I passed a funeral home yesterday with a banner out front. It read “Newly Remodeled - Stop In for a Visit.” As it happens this establishment was recently purchased by the local pioneer in less expensive and pre-planned funerals. It happens to be a woman who started these innovations when she was single and in […]
Nothing happens until somebody sells something. Rule 1 in all of commerce. Sales people are often portrayed in a negative light, but if you haven’t got many widely successful sales people your business is in big trouble. How do sales people become wildly successful? They offer products and services that meet the significant needs of […]
Two businesses are somewhat at logger heads over implementation of a service over the Net. It’s a decent service supported by a transaction based website. The problem is that one company wants this to be the lead product for the second company. The second company sees the value of the web based service, but sees […]
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Written by Jean Murray [email] for b5media.
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