Philip Greenspun on Business

Business Writing

"The customer may not always be right, but he is always the customer."

The author has been trained primarily as an engineer and does not hold himself out as an expert on management. However, he has started and managed enterprises as large as $20 million per year in revenue with a staff of 80 full-time employees.

Product Ideas

Remember that a product is not a business. A product could be purchased by a business and sold, but a product plan is not a business plan. Here are a few things that I think could be the basis for a new enterprise:

Building recreational vehicles in China
Extending the mobile phone with a dock so that it can function as a home computer
An advertising-supported Web service allowing people to check all of their online communities on one page
Video Editing Tablet; if creating home video is a leisure activity, why can't editing also be?
a better interface for a compact digital camera

Marketing

Why a small business should use a Weblog as its Web site

Management

Other Writing

Internet Software Patents

Want to do something interesting but don't need more money? Look at my ideas for new non-profit projects.

philg@mit.edu

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