Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

What’s Print Media’s Golden Ticket? A Reverse Engineered New Product.

By Allen | Published: November 21, 2009

Publication networks like Conde Naste are the pinnacle of experiential media and advertising. But, they are selling the wrong product. The severing of Conde Nast’s Gourmet magazine title (among others) was a brash reality check to the entrenched media industry leaders, oblivious to all prior warnings, that NOW is time to adapt or become extinct! [...]

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Survival Skills from Chef David Chang

By Allen | Published: October 18, 2009

There is no doubt about it, Chef David Chang is kicking some serious food butt, while simultaneously, offering a survival tactic for the rest of America’s entrepreneurs. The 32 year old NYC chef, entrepreneur, and czar of the Momofuku restaurant dynasty has carved out his spot in the New York restaurant scene through sheer entrepreneurial grit [...]

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Monetize that Pizza Box

By Allen | Published: October 15, 2009

If you’ve ever been to NYC for any significant period of time, it’s impossible to ignore the abundance of takeout pizza joints through out the city, and further, that every joint uses the exact same generic pizza box design with generic “pizza shop” logo printed on the top. And I mean, THE EXACT SAME BOX. Why [...]

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Lessons from a Farmer: Find Profit in Your Company’s Waste

By Allen | Published: October 13, 2009

Companies could learn a thing or too from the local farmer. Specifically, how to find profit in seemingly useless waste. After a recent visit to Stone Barns farm in Terrytown, NY (as part of NYC’s Food and Wine Festival), I began thinking about the synergies local small farmers are utilizing to dig profit out of [...]