Top Ten List from the Late Show with David Letterman circa 1997. Top Ten Ways to Mispronounce Kirby Puckett 10. Kooby Pickett 9. Creepy Pockets 8. Bernie Crumpet 7. Turkey Bucket 6. Buddy Hackett 5. The Puckett Formerly Known as Kirby 4. Punky Brewster 3. Kent Hrbek 2. There once was a man from Nantucket who Kirbied his very own Puckett 1. Englepuck Kirbydink

posted by Dan Flies @ 5/17/2006 01:33:00 PM 0 comments links to this post  

Anyone Want to Help Me Make a $1B?

In Search of...$1 Billion in Revenue - New York Times: "BOOKSTORE shelves are crowded with how-to books for business leaders striving toward excellence. David G. Thomson's recently published book, 'Blueprint to a Billion: Seven Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth,' takes a different approach. Mr. Thomson evaluates patterns shared by what he calls 'blueprint companies' — the 387 businesses that have gone public since 1980 and have reached $1 billion in revenue.

These star businesses represent just 5 percent of the companies that have gone public in that time frame, yet they accounted for more than half of their employment and two-thirds of their market value in 2005. Many of them are household names: Microsoft, Starbucks, Google, Nike, Genentech and Staples. Mr. Thomson notes that of the 4,000 publicly traded companies with $30 million to $1 billion in annual revenue, only 30 become billion-dollar businesses each year. 'We must improve our hit rate,' he said. 'If we could make that 60, we'd be a different nation.'"

posted by Dan Flies @ 5/01/2006 11:00:00 PM 0 comments links to this post