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- The Classic Toy “Mr. Potato Head” Would Never Become a Success in Today's Overprotective Society - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke The Classic Toy “Mr. Potato Head” Would Never Become a Success in Today’s Overprotective Society In the late 1940’s a Brooklyn-based inventor named George Lerner began to attempt to license a toy concept he had developed. The idea was to take pieces of fruit and vegetables ...
Views: 1831 - The Entrepreneurial Spirit Burns Brighter Than Ever - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Geoff FickeDuring a recent quick business trip to New York City a normal, everyday travel occurrence ignited a recurring observation I enjoy more and more frequently. The Entrepreneurial Spirit is booming in America! While sitting in a dank Yellow Cab, crawling in the normal snail paced city traffic, I ...
Views: 1109 - The Great American Whine - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke Recently, Michelle Obama famously commented that for the first time in her life she was proud of her country. Her remarks were widely critiqued and rightly so, as she is potentially the next First Lady of the United States. Her delayed burst of enthusiasm for the land of her ...
Views: 1181 - The Great Department Store Visionaries Created Much More Than Vast Retail Palaces - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke The Great Department Store Visionaries Created Much More Than Vast Retail Palaces Before the middle of the 19th century retailing was a disorganized, semi-professional business. Small general merchandise stores carried minimal stock levels and were often limited to local ...
Views: 1432 - The Historic Link Between Tulips and The Sub-Prime Mortgage Debacle - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke Almost every living individual is being effected adversely in some way by the international economic meltdown we are experiencing today. The genesis of this severe financial downturn is attributed to the United States government encouraging the expansion of homeownership to ...
Views: 1984 - The Old Adage “You Get What You Pay For” Is Especially Important to Service Providers in Today’s Economy - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2011 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke The Old Adage “You Get What You Pay For” Is Especially Important to Service Providers in Today’s Economy The 19th century British essayist John Ruskin once presciently stated, “There is scarcely a thing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a ...
Views: 1458 - The Simple Road Reflector Saves Lives And Provides A Great Teaching Template - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke One wintry night in 1933, Percy Shaw found himself driving his automobile on a remote country road in England. The night was moonless; the fog hung densely and there was a persistent mixture of rain and snow belting against his windshield. The road was little more than a lane, ...
Views: 2642 - The Simple, Ubiquitous Modern Screw Created Fortunes and Enabled Mass Production to Flourish - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke The Simple, Ubiquitous Modern Screw Created Fortunes and Enabled Mass Production to Flourish Every human seems to have screws lying around our homes and offices. They tend to accumulate like dust particles. Open a drawer or a utility box and there will be a jumble of screws ...
Views: 1119 - The World’s Most Successful Board Game Was Created As A Metaphor for Hard Times - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke Successful entrepreneurs are people that always see opportunity in any situation. By nature they are positive and constantly seek innovations that address wants and needs that they identify in their contemporary environment. Currently we are in a dark economic period, and this ...
Views: 2497 - There Is Always Money to Fund Start-ups - Just Be Focused and Creative-It’s Never Easy - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke We live in perilous financial times. As the markets have imploded, home prices cratered, jobs lost and incomes uncertain many people have become very risk averse. Very understandable! Many of us are more focused on maintaining our resources than expanding them in the face of ...
Views: 1047 - This Great Warrior King Always Thought Outside of the Box - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke Prospective entrepreneurs are always encouraged to think outside of the box when striving to commercialize their idea for a new business. The ability to see things differently and identify a niche for a product is so essential. Unfortunately, there is no book, course or advice ...
Views: 1138 - Two Centuries Ago “The King of Chefs, the Chef of Kings” - by Submitted on May 21, 2011 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke Two Centuries Ago “The King of Chefs, the Chef of Kings” Created the Modern Gourmet Cooking We Know Today We live in an age of plenty, when food is consumed and pursued as much for entertainment as for sustenance. Haute cuisine foodie magazines abound. There are television ...
Views: 3564 - Water Lessons Learned, Lost And Re-learned today? - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke I recently visited the exciting, ancient city of Rome, Italy with my family. Of course, we all know that this city by the Tiber River is basically an open-air museum, with stunning historic relics every where one looks. The Forum, the Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain, the Borghese ...
Views: 1168 - We Miss the Eloquence and Logic Of Milton Friedman Now More Than Ever - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2009 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke One of the signal economic thinkers of the 20th century was the Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. His many books and papers, interviews and television specials have left us a valuable trove of thoughts and observations that should serve as guideposts during our ...
Views: 1197 - What is a Business Model? - by Submitted on Aug 07, 2009 from Geoff FickeDuring the 1990’s a number of examples of new business terminology cane into vogue. Among these was the term Business Model. The usage of this term has become so capricious that the original definitions and intent of these two words has been diminished and confused. In essence, the Business ...
Views: 1089 - “Fortune Is Not on the Side of the Faint-Hearted”: Sophocles, 5th Century B.C. Greek Philosopher - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2011 from Geoff Fickeby: Geoff Ficke What was true when written in Sophocles revered 5th Century B.C. text Phaedra, is ever-more true in the 21st century. Other than the lightning struck few who win a lottery prize, fortune, and success in life is not given easily, and certainly not to the faint hearted. The ...
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