Most of the greatest innovators and biggest businesses in the world got their starts in garages. Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs (Apple Computers) used Job´s parents´garage to start Apple. So did William Hewlett and David Packard, BTW (did you now that Hewlett&Packard is now larger than IBM?). Walt Disney, Les Paul, Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Founders of Google), Karsten Solheim (Founder of Ping golf clubs), Anton Rupert (Rembrant founder), Amway…all of these businesses started in garages. Garages are magical, but in a way you don’t realize at first. As Rahul Deodhar, who is in investment banking in Mumbai, India told me,
“Garages typically give you the freedom from rules (no one to judge you!!) and requisite tools to do your things and hatch them up till they are ready for the real world. That’s what the symbolism says to me.” – Rahul
From that great description came the idea for “The Corporate Garage,” a blog about the disruptive innovators, the start-ups and the boot-strappers of the world.
This blog will range from business book reviews to guest blogs, studies, rants and raves – anything related or of interest to small businesses and bootstrappers. There are actually two blogs – one by the name The Corporate Garage and simply “Corporate Garage.”
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Didier // October 5, 2008 at 3:52 pm
The ‘Garage’ story is also about the freedom to learn from/with others.
I hope you are opening a new form of ‘virtual’ garage.
Good luck !
Didier Daglinckx
Belgium
CoCreatr // December 1, 2008 at 4:49 am
Good luck with your startup into the world of
“Trust Economies” as Julien Smith and Chris Brogan say, “We are suspicious of marketing. We don’t trust strangers as willingly. Buzz is suspect. It can be bought. Instead, … We want someone we know to say we should look into it. Marketing spend might start at awareness, but in the Trust Economy, communities are king, and ROI stands for Return on Influence.”
Source: http://www.changethis.com/44.04.TrustEconomy