The Corporate Entrepreneur

www.localbidder.com still progressing!

Corporate Entrepreneur — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:22:40 +0000

You read it here first folks. www.localbidder.com is up to almost 500 contractors – and various local home improvement jobs have been posted on the site for local contractors to bid.

To refresh your memory, localbidder.com provides an auction for your home-improvement or home service needs. The services localbidder.com auctions range from: local moving, local landscaping, local remodeling, local plumbing, local roofing, local carpeting/carpet cleaning, local painting, and local cleaning. The www.localbidder.com site is catching on as a way to get the best price/cheapest local contractors to do your work.

Go to www.localbidder.com and check it out. Whether you need moving, remodeling, landscaping, plumbing, painting, roofing, cleaning, or carpeting – you can find the best deal for your home improvement/home services work at localbidder.com

www.localbidder.com

Corporate Entrepreneur — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:14:31 +0000

Headline News – there is a new start up, www.localbidder.com, aimed at linking customers in need of cheap, good moving, landscaping, painting, roofing, carpeting, cleaning, and handyman services with qualified contractors. www.localbidder.com , a San Diego based firm, has recently opened its site for vendors to sign up.

The innovative service allows competitive bids for customers’ service needs, the first of its kind to offer this kind of marketplace for so many home services. If you are a vendor, sign up at the site, www.localbidder.com. If you’re a customer in need, post your job and start receiving bids!!!

Had to share this one..

Corporate Entrepreneur — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:17:41 +0000

If you’re looking for a laugh about open sourcing, you gotta check this blog at www.opensourcemgmt.com . Goes to show you the minds are wandering as to how to innovate going forward. Not really linked to Corporate Entrepreneurship, but good for a lauch.

Entrepreneurs Unite!

Corporate Entrepreneur — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:26:38 +0000

Recently, I was fortunate enough to participate in the annual USASBE (US Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) conference in Anaheim, CA. USASBE, an affiliate for the International Council for Small Business, seems to be a great organization – bringing together academic and industry expertise to share research and best practices once a year. It got me thinking as to whether there were smaller scale corporate entrepreneurship events directed more on a smaller, regional scale – where smaller groups of interested people could meet periodically to network and swap stories. Does anybody know if there are local corporate entrepreneurship meet up groups? Or even regional?

I’m currently based out of San Diego, and would be very interested to participate and/or help organize some networking sessions. I would also be willing to travel if it turns out that events like this already occur in other regions of the country. If anyone knows of anything at all as to how one finds out about these sorts of corporate entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship/innovation – type events, please let me know!

When innovation meets advertising…

Corporate Entrepreneur — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:39:33 +0000

Holiday Season is upon us, and I’m sure we’re all being bombarded with ads for what to buy, where to shop, and how to make our loved ones love us more with must-have presents this year. It’s estimated that the typical customer sees 1200 ads per day…in newspapers, tv, online, outside, and in our homes. With so many ads hitting our senses daily, I’ve picked out 30 clever ads that are bound to stand out… Enjoy! And please let me know if there are any of your favorites that I missed. – CE

CrowdSourcing

Corporate Entrepreneur — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:27:45 +0000

Should be hearing more about this one in the future, but CrowdSourcing is a pretty neat arrangement rich with new opportunities for innovation. As defined by wikipedia, Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. For example, the public may be invited to develop a new technology, carry out a design task (also known ascommunity-based design^[1] and distributed participatory design), refine an algorithm or help capture, systematize or analyze large amounts of data (see alsocitizen science)..

In layman’s terms, it’s the equivalent of using an ask the audience lifeline in Who Wants to be a Millionaire to figure out the best answer…Anyways, I ran across an interesting example of a company pushing the crowdsourcing envelope…

AKA Music is a relatively new site where everyday music listeners like you and I can become producers. Basically, you buy a certain number of credits and search the site for unsigned singers and bands that you like. When you find one(s) that you like, you invest as much of your credits as you want to get them in the studio with the AKA music team. When one of the acts that you invested in sells a song on itunes or any of their other partner sites, you split the profits…40% for you, 40% for the music act, and 20% for AKA music. Pretty neat idea…find out more at http://en.akamusic.com/ .

Tomorrow Teams

Corporate Entrepreneur — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:25:02 +0000

Devoted and faithful readers, I fixed the url problem (champagne toast as we speak)…However, that accomplishment is not the reason for this post. I sat in on a lecture this evening from one of the Exec VPs of WD40, and was surprised to hear about their innovative culture. They have established what they refer to as “Tomorrow Teams”, whose mantra is “Don’t let the urgency of today get in the way of what’s important tomorrow”. Essentially, the folks at WD40 decided that since most workers are caught up in the usual crisis du jours that come up, they have no time to focus on the future health of the company. To get around this issue, they have set up groups, referred to as tomorrow teams, who have no responsibility at the company aside from looking ahead and strategizing as to the best ways to position the company for success in the future. Their only job is to come up with new and innovative ways in which to use and sell WD40.

I wouldn’t have thought that a company like WD40 would be so concerned with the future positioning of their brand, but alas, they invest quite a bit of money to “grease the skids” and keep the company ahead of the curve. WD40, definitely not the sexiest of brands, but still a solid example of a company looking to the future with an eye on innovation.

BTW…there’s like 2000 uses for WD40, which you can find at www.wd40.com .

Hello World

Corporate Entrepreneur — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:07:36 +0000

Greetings readers. Or reader. As I believe I am currently the only known soul in the planet that has the good sense to post to and read from this site. I am still working out the kinks to get rid of the .wordpress.com from the url, but the most recent message I read was that it could take up to a few days – so we’ll see what happens.

Anyways, I’d like to take a second to introduce this site. Corporate Entrepreneurship is a topic I’ve studied heavily as of late, and I am fascinated that such an exciting field has such a small amount of research dedicated to it at this point. I’m hoping to build this site into an open space where those interested in corporate entrepreneurship, and intrapreneuring, and general innovativeness in the corporate world can share resources, articles, thoughts, etc. as this field emerges. Please always feel free to comment and criticize, offer different point of views, or agree. I do not claim to be an expert on the subject of corporate entrepreneurship, but I do have some set opinions from experience as to what works and what does not…

So, welcome to the page. Hope to hear from you. And check back to see soon if progress is made with the url…