Steve Jobs: co-founder of Apple Computers, founder of NeXT, and co-founder of Pixar.
Here’s a Steve Job’s talk on the early days of Apple at the Computer History Museum in 1980. You can already tell that Job’s already has a strong vision of what the future is going to look like. Plus he looks like a hippie.
I’ve had a few interesting assignments since starting my MBA program.
Last week we were split into groups of 7 and given a hypothetical situation: our entire team had crash-landed on the moon and we had to hike 200 some miles to reach the mother ship. We could only carry 10 items with us. The goal was to come to a group consensus on what 10 items to bring and list them in priority order.
We were given a list of 15ish random items, such as: water, pistols, a raft, and parachute silk.
The kicker was that we were videotaped as we worked. The intent being that everyone would get critiqued on teamwork skills.
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Whenever I launch something new I always get stuck on how much I should charge. It’s an especially difficult question to answer because how much you charge has a profound impact on how much money you make — or even whether you make any money at all.
While performing research on product pricing, I ran across this fascinating anecdote. Thought I would share it here today.
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