“MY IDEA IS SO GREAT, I’M GUARANTEED SUCCESS!”
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
We see too many entrepreneurs falling in love with their products and kidding themselves into believing that their idea itself is all they need to make them a screaming success. Warehouses are filled with great commercial products that never got to store shelves.... “WHY, I’D CALL IT BAREFOOT BUBBLY!” -Mabel Hurd
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Michael Houlihan, Co-Founder of Barefoot Wines, came back exhausted from a sales trip to Southern California in late 1993. He told Bonnie Harvey, the other Co-Founder of Barefoot Wines, and her mom, Mabel Hurd, it was a disaster because the stores were stocking up... EMPLOYER OR CUSTOMER?
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
If you are a recent college grad, you may be hitting the employment market about now. You may think you are searching for a job, but maybe you should be searching for a “customer.” “I need to pay my bills,” you say, or “I need some security,” but by changing the... I GOT A GREAT IDEA – PAY ME …NOT!
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
We have met many inventors with great ideas who think they should get paid just for coming up with the idea. There’s a ton of patent attorneys out there who gladly take money to file a patent, ostensibly to license it to the big guy who can’t live without it. They’ll... DON’T BE LIKE THE SPANISH ARMADA
by Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey | Business Blog
Just because you launched your business don’t think that’s the key to success. The Spanish launched 1,000 ships … and they all sunk in a storm! So what exactly does success look like? If you’re a ship, it’s getting safely in to port. But where’s port? And how do you...