Category Archives for Entrepreneurship

→ Startups, This Is How Design Works

Wells Riley sets out to explain “design” to non-designer entrepreneurs — and makes a great job: It’s so much more than that. It’s a state of mind. It’s an approach to a problem. It’s how you’re going to kick your competitor’s … Continue reading

07. May 2012 by Jean Friesewinkel
Categories: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Interface Design, Startups | Leave a comment

★ Fab.com’s amazing pivot story

Fab.com‘s pivot is nothing short of spectacular. Founder and CEO Jason Goldberg tells this fascinating story with a presentation: In about 3 weeks, they completely changed their strategy — and now they’ve got significant traction and raised $40M more funding. I … Continue reading

29. December 2011 by Jean Friesewinkel
Categories: Business model design, Entrepreneurship, Links, Retail, Startups, Strategy | Leave a comment

★ The Strategyist Selection: It’s Revenues Time! [Special Alpha Edition, comments welcome!]

I’m starting up a new way of sharing links, in aggregate rather than direct link posts. I don’t know yet whether I will combine both, use this as a summary of previously posted links, or switch to this format entirely. … Continue reading

25. October 2011 by Jean Friesewinkel
Categories: Entrepreneurship, Links, Strategyist Selection | Leave a comment

★ Work towards Outcomes, not just Outputs; and Make Meaning

Umair Haque makes a passionate statement, one which defines my vision of entrepreneurship quite well: I don’t care about your “strategy,” “business model,” “campaign,” “product,” or “deliverables” (sorry). All that stuff is focused on outputs. What matters to people, in … Continue reading

18. April 2011 by Jean Friesewinkel
Categories: Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Quotes | Leave a comment