Updated: 8/15/2007; 1:11:36 PM

Dispatches from the Frontier
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation

daily link  Saturday, November 27, 2004

The New Kings of Capitalism

This week's edition of The Economist features an extensive series of articles on the private equity business.  Recommended.

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Apples and Ideas

A tip of the hat to Myke's Weblog for the reference to this quote of George Bernard Shaw:

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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Furthermore, without you, I can have none but trivial ideas.  Surely, creativity is a social act.  As Jan Twombly and Jeff Shuman say, an entrepreneur is a choreographer, but depends upon the willing collaboration of a cast of players.

 
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