Saturday, March 13, 2010

More Evidence of How Hard it Is to Replicate Google's Success

It's an impressionistic, but useful take on Google's uniqueness among companies, that so few ex-Googlers have been able to replicate Google's success. Googlers are smart, there is no question about that. But Microsoft and many other firms go out of their way to hire "smart people." That fact alone does not seem to automatically produce out-sized results.

Think you can be the next Google?

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Product Substitution: Plant-Based Protein Largely Fails the Test

It is a truism that substitute products, such as plant-based proteins that mimic meat, must have some obvious value that induces consumers t...