Did you know that not all guitar strings are the same? There are different weights – heavier strings initiate more volume but also put more tension on the most resonant surface of the guitar. There are different metals and alloys, consisting of nickel, copper, and sometimes even phosphorus. Some strings are coated with a fine [...]
Sometimes I think to myself, “Ryan, your blog is truly a shining beacon in a dark internet sea of dead Xangas. It is truly inspirational how you manage to deftly relate every tangential aspect of your life back to your business school theme, even when the connection is tenuous.” But just when I start getting [...]
As an MBA student, I see presentations almost daily. It’s rare that I see a presentation that’s so outstanding that I feel the need to tell others about it simply on the basis of its effectiveness in communicating information. I saw one on Wednesday evening. The entrepreneur challenge is a series of speakers culminating quarterly [...]
This week, in our Lab to Market intro course, we were reading about creating new market space (as contrasted with capturing a share of an existing market). Buried in one of our articles was a sidebar about Quicken software. The sidebar contained what I immediately identified as the worst graphs in the entire world, reproduced [...]