How to Stay Innovative?
[Darci Riesenhuber gives us the entry below. She was excited to meet this person, and she wants us all to know her story and perhaps provide some feedback.—CM] Sara Blakely, a local Atlantan, started...
View ArticleWomen's New Business Factory
This weekend, I had a terrific time attending the BlogHer Conference in Santa Clara, CA, with Cathy Mosca and Phoebe Espiritu, two colleagues here at Tom Peters. This amazing conference had 100% women...
View ArticleHot Day Hot Stock
It was a very hot day here. And as for hot, if you had to name two very hot things in business these days, surely "search" and "China" would come to mind. So when Baidu (pronounced "by-doo")—China's...
View ArticleSpringboard
In May, I posted an entry about Springboard Venture Capital Forum for women entrepreneurs in Chicago. Now, it's happening in Boston, too. From their publicity: On November 18th, 20-25 women...
View ArticleOpportunities Unlimited!
Spoke last Friday to a couple of thousand tanning salon owners. Ninety percent "Mom & Pops." I love such groups! (KFC and Hilton property owners recently. Community bankers coming soon.) That is,...
View ArticlePerks!
Taking part in Leaders in Sydney tomorrow. Another participant is Anita Roddick. Quite simply, I think she is one of the most remarkable human beings, women, entrepreneurs in the world. Among other...
View ArticleWhat the U.S. Does Right (Besides Wal*Mart)
The precarious state of America's economic future, courtesy China, seems to rank only behind, and perhaps not behind, terrorism on people's frights list. China is a clear economic "game-changer," no...
View ArticleDDMP, or "D-squared MP"
I had several press interviews yesterday for a forthcoming event in South Africa. The conversation invariably turned to entrepreneurship. I was repeatedly asked what the "secrets" were to starting a...
View ArticleChiding the Press (and Myself)
Did a few interviews with the Wisconsin press this morning, in preparation for a speech at the end of the month to the Wisconsin Innovation Network. We immediately fell into conversation about...
View ArticleSXSW Opening Remarks
Our Cool Friend Jason Fried and our old friend Jim Coudal gave the opening remarks at the South by Southwest conference in Austin (10-19 March). Here's the link to the podcast. Jim talks about...
View ArticleInnovation TV
Last night I watched a new reality TV series, American Inventor, mostly because our Cool Friend Doug Hall is one of the judges. Remember he's the one who originated the idea of Dramatic Difference,...
View ArticleWhat Was Buckley Really Doing There?
The front page of the June 1 Boston Globe had this headline: "Hundreds Gather to Memorialize Galbraith." (That's the late Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith.) The accompanying photo prominently...
View ArticleThe Entrepreneurial Spirit
Fred Karl, designer of the Viking range and owner of that company said, "I was a weird kid—I began designing towns when I was 12." We all know that "weird" can be good, if we don't judge others through...
View ArticleJim Scores!
I like, no, love, businesses that surprise with imaginative services—such as the Home Depot case above. It perhaps gets better. Consider Jim, my favorite Australian these days. Jim (Jim Penman) sports...
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The Mighty Marvelous Mittelstand Rules:SBI/Success By "Ichironomics"
Who is the Number One exporter in the world? Who has (probably) the highest wages in the world (not CEO "wages"!)? If you answered that it was a nation of 83 million folks in Western Europe—namely...
View ArticleTom Peters' Superstar/Top41 Entrepreneurs
I was asked by a magazine to come up with a list of the five entrepreneurs I most admired. Consistent with my whatever, I offered a list of 41, though I did single out my top 13 (**) and my Top 1...
View Article"Entrepreneurial Society"
That's what Adrian Wooldridge and the Economist call our emergent global economy, current madness notwithstanding. The Americans are still the undisputed leaders, and they're likely to hold the top...
View ArticleMy Heart (and Body) Are in San Francisco, God's Gift to City-hood!
I spoke at an Inc. magazine event last night in San Francisco, commemorating the winner of an entrepreneur-to-be contest with a hearty financial prize. Incidentally, in the name of Chinese ubiquity,...
View ArticleThe Mess Will Save Us.Eventually.
We tend to think of the jobs economy in terms of jobs lost at the likes of GM and jobs added at the likes of Google. And thinking in such a manner is misleading, and downright dangerous. The fact is...
View ArticleSwashbuckling: Bo vs Zorro
In a blog post titled "Business Book(s) of the Year," Tom named George Whalin's Retail Superstars as his #1 for 2009. Why? Tom says, "I think Whalin's message is perfect for 2009. We will, over the...
View ArticleThe Global Detective
Tom's good friend Alan Webber has a new ebook out called The Global Detective: My search for clues, cues, and views in the lands of tall blonde people. Alan went on quite a journey to discover what's...
View ArticleTom's in the Top 5
Tom's tweets were recommended by OpenForum as one of the Top 5 Twitter feeds on Entrepreneurship. He joined Chris Brogan, Pam Slim, Becky McRay's SB Survival, and Anita Campbell's Small Biz Trends. We...
View ArticleWhy It's Time To Compete on What You're Thinking
[Our guest blogger is Ian Sanders. He runs an ideas consultancy where he creates and delivers ideas to solve challenges, facilitate growth, and help businesses stand out from the crowd. His new book...
View ArticleForbes on Social Entrepreneurs
Acumen Fund founder Jacqueline Novogratz is on the 19 December Forbes cover. The lead article, which I highly recommend, is titled "Innovation Saves the World: The Social Entrepreneurs Making an...
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