I remember a discussion I had with a friend a while ago where he was convinced that if he was ever going to start a business, or invest in a commodity, he would invest in water. “It’s the biggest thing next to energy!” He cheered.
About two weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with [...]
I have a little sister who works for company that scans and digitizes legal documents. It is a fun little company that requires some initial contracts and some consistent employees, but appears nonetheless to be a relatively low maintenance company. I think that to own a company that only requires management [...]
During a recent business trip to vegas, I took the welcomed opportunity to eat at one of my favorite restaurants, The Cheesecake Factory.
Their chicken madeira is truly a cullinary marvel. The texture and flavor are satisfying to the last morsel.
Unfortunately, The Cheesecake Factory is all corporate owned. I called their corporate [...]
I have always been fascinated by business models which successfully integrate profitable business practices that measurably improve society.
Worldwide Book Drive doesn’t quite fit the criteria for this socially responsible business plan competition primarily because we don’t have any graduate students on the team. It is of course a minor technicality which [...]
I hear a lot of the statement, “John, I have this great idea…” The simple truth is there are billions of great ideas out there, but the person that makes it happen is truly unique.
Listed below is a basic frame-work I developed to teach an introductory class to help people without prior business experience [...]
We’ve recently adapted a sponsorship model into our work at Worldwide Book Drive, that integrates complimentary businesses into our book drive schedule. This is roughly the same price as pre-sorted postage, but offers a personalized introduction of the Worldwide Book Drive Sponsor to every home in Utah. (As the Worldwide Book Drive Program [...]
So we had a little fun with a inter-company competition of ping pong yesterday. A few of the guys from our little Books Collection and Redistribution company, (Worldwide Book Drive), met up with the guys and Sewelldirect.com and and suffered a clear defeat. It was a great break away from the daily grind [...]
Worldwide Book Drive (often cited as world wide book drive), is a small company with a huge vision. We have recieved a lot of positive feedback on our services and programs. We have a long ways yet to go, but I believe it’s on the right track.
The College Times recently did an article [...]
When I was in 4th grade, I remember learning about the problem of landfill waste and drawing up what I felt was a grand concept to compost waste and create land in floating barges in the ocean. I drew up plans with areation modules, anchoring systems, etc. When I learned that the Japanese had [...]
In my opinion, development costs are some of the scariest expenses of a business that integrates the web. Generally speaking, front end isn’t too bad, but a back-end that allows dyanmic interface and webmastery, not to mention shoppingcart and customer accounts can add up fast…
I was first introduced to offshore outsourcing by John Jonas, [...]