Jackson Fish Market
Posted on April 7, 2009 by hillel on Industry

Pixar will fail (eventually).

In many ways, our aspirations for Jackson Fish Market are modeled after Pixar. Pixar isn’t the biggest in its industry, but it is among the best. It stays focused, it tries to do what it knows best, it worries primarily about creating something loved by its creators (as opposed to its demographic). Pixar also slowly […]

Posted on by hillel on Events

Bloom Seattle

With all our talk about our own small event, we can’t neglect to mention other events happening around town. Specifically, Bloom Seattle is being held on April 9th (next week) and will feature six speakers talking about green innovation. I’m particularly excited about Aaron Fairchild of g2bVentures that are buying foreclosed properties and flipping them […]

Posted on April 2, 2009 by hillel on Small and Special

The Small Company Advantage

I realize that people, and especially the media, like to write about trends. And with the economy in bad shape, small is in. This is not to say that there aren’t downsides to a company being small. In general though (unless you’re making something like cars perhaps) I find that the advantages of small outweigh […]