by Stephen Key | Jan 13, 2018 | Protecting Your Creativity
Post Views: 413 If you invent a great idea for a new product, others will copy you. It’s just a matter of when. That’s guaranteed. Whether your company is small or one of the largest in the world does not matter. Copycats are the norm now. Run a successful Kickstarter...
by Stephen Key | Jan 13, 2018 | Venturing
Post Views: 389 Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a fascinating and deeply reported article about how startups around the world are beating global consumer goods companies. In “Outfoxed by Small-Batch Upstarts, Unilever Decides to Imitate Them,”...
by Stephen Key | Jan 12, 2018 | Trade Show
Post Views: 426 There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere at a major trade show. You can feel the energy and excitement in the air. And it’s contagious! To be surrounded by so many people who have come together for the explicit purpose of doing business...
by Stephen Key | Oct 4, 2016 | How to Become Successful
Post Views: 312 Working at a startup taught me more about business than any other endeavor has. In the mid ‘80s, long before startup culture was red hot, I joined a toy company that was rapidly growing in Fremont, California. Looking back, the two years I spent there...