Kauffman Series: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Domino’s Pizza Turnaround
Spread the Wealth
As the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats. Likewise, the more you share success, the more you can have. Here are some simple ways to do it: Network.Make and nurture as many professional contacts as possible. You may eventually be able to help someone solve a dilemma, or vice versa. It’s a great […]
Reading List: Get Big Fast and Do More Good
In this lively and accessible account, Ido Leffler and Lance Kalish, co-founders of global beauty brand Yes To, tell the story of how the entrepreneurially minded pair met in Australia, formed a beautiful partnership, started a company, nearly tanked several times and now sit at the helm of a San Francisco-based beauty empire. This he-said/he-said […]
Shop Small on Small Business Saturday
Small Business Saturday, founded by American Express in 2010, has one, well, big, goal. That is to support small local businesses. The nationwide event falls on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so this year, that’s November 30. When consumers support mom and pop, small businesses can create more jobs, and that helps power the economy and […]
Kauffman Series: From a Hobby to a Business
Turkey Day Tradition
It’s a tradition we all know. These are the numbers behind Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: 4 new balloons this year $190,000 reported cost of a new balloon 72,000 square feet in Macy’s Moonachie, N.J., Parade Studio, where all balloons and floats are built $285,000 average cost of 30-second NBC spot during parade $1,029 cost per […]
Reading List: The 80/20 Manager
In his 1997 best-seller, The 80/20 Principle, entrepreneur and investor Richard Koch adapted the Pareto Rule—the principle that 80 percent of what we accomplish results from 20 percent of our efforts—to everyday life. Now, in The 80/20 Manager, Koch tailors it to the art of managing, explaining that more work hours don’t net better results. […]
A Restaurateur’s Test Kitchen Strategy
Michael Zislis believes in the restaurateur’s equivalent of the pop quiz. Every night, without advance notice, he visits one of his nine Southern California restaurants to make sure all is well. Zislis might stride into The Strand House, a sophisticated oceanfront restaurant in Manhattan Beach; the sprawling Rock’N Fish at the L.A. Live entertainment complex […]
The Brand New You
Success as a solo-preneur requires more than just talent and hard work: You also have to manage your personal brand. Like Madonna or Prince (it’s just Prince again, right?), you have to reinvent periodically to stay relevant. Here are a few tips: Don’t go too far. Don’t completely abandon the old you. Even as you […]
Kauffman Series: Global Entrepreneurship Week
Bullies at Work
Think about bullies and you imagine the schoolyard or, in the wake of the Miami Dolphins’ scandal, the locker room. The stereotype bully is a big doofus or a “mean girl” who uses an unfair advantage to brutalize or denigrate a weaker counterpart. Bullies grow up—and not all get drafted into the NFL. They go […]
