On Jun 8, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Peter Pesce <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Great read. I was really struck by the herd mentality evident in the >> commentary - the almost palpable desperation for something, anything, "new" >> to sell to a saturated market, offset by the terror of being first, and >> maybe getting hung out to dry if you end up being the only! >> >> It is such a stark contrast to the attitude expressed by Grant, Jan et al - >> "we're doing "X" because nobody else is willing to do "X." > > Grant and Jan and Velo Orange and Wallbike are doing what good entrepreneurs > do: making the products they want to have. Trek and Specialized and > Cannondale etc. do what corporate businesses do: try to guess what the > "market" wants and trying to make that. The former create markets, the > latter exploit markets. The former can reinvent themselves almost at will > but the latter can't. The former drive the direction of the market with much > more influence than the latter. > > The former approach was behind the originations and resurgence of Apple. > When they were run from the corporate perspective by Scully and Amelio, they > nearly tanked several times. Jobs- for all his personality and behavioral > issues- kept the central notion of "what products do I really want" as a > center of product design. Their market research philosophy was basically > "wow, that's really f***ing cool!". The result is the most valuable > corporation in the world because it is driven by product design, building the > products that Jobs and his desk freak thought wold be really cool to have, > starting with a home brew computer built in a garage and leading up to the > iPad I am typing this on.
And typing somewhat erratically, I see. The sprit of the Newton lives! > I see the same fundamental approach at Rivendell. Grant thought that 650B > was cool and decided to sell them, and here we are with a "650B revolution" > three or four years later. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
