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:: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 ::

It pays to be small.

"Data from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Commerce show that small entrepreneurial firms have been responsible for 95 percent of all radical innovation in the United States in the past half century and that smaller firms have generated 24 times as many innovations per R&D dollar as larger corporations with more than 10,000 employees." See Stimulus Package Will Spur Micro-Business Growth, Economy Expensing, Individual Income Tax Rate Reductions Encourage Investment

"Small websites get less traffic than big ones, but they can still dominate their niches."Diversity is Power for Specialized Sites by Jakob Nielsen

It pays to take small steps.

"The big survivors of the dot-com crash -- Amazon, eBay, Dell, Google, Yahoo, and CNN -- have each foregone the big redesign in lieu of continual changes on the site. The changes are so fluid that users hardly notice." The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch By Jared Spool, Principal, User Interface Engineering

It pays to pay per click.

"Five or 10 years from now, we are going to look back at the current state of Web search and be embarrassed, like we are now when we look back at old technologies like Betamax VCRs and 8-track tapes," said Gary William Flake, Overture's chief science officer." Search Engine Pioneer Overture Prepares for New Chapter

Motivation.

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 6/17/2003 11:11:41 AM

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