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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Feb. 4, 2023 • 11:43 AM • 409 days ago
This image reminded me of how we bring retailers and brands together to build a network. Image credit: The Wall St. Journal.
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Feb. 4, 2023 • 11:43 AM • 409 days ago
How we can bring clients together to build a larger network.
Economist Bent Flyvbjerg encourages us to find our “Lego” in his new book “How Big Things Get Done.”  Mr. Flyvbjerg, whose new book is reviewed by Ben Cohen in this week’s The Wall Street Journal, says that most large projects that are completed successfully use a modular approach. Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal:

“That’s the question every project leader should ask: What is the small thing we can assemble in ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge June 13, 2022 • 9:17 AM • 645 days ago
We start with content and then seek to refine and transform this in to something greater.
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge June 13, 2022 • 9:17 AM • 645 days ago
We’ve chatted about the importance of checklists. Checklists can be checklists literally as well as figuratively (i.e. software).  Checklists help us order our thoughts and actions.   Yet, the last step on each checklist should be: removing as many checklist steps as possible. This ironic strategy is necessary because steps inherently are friction, and friction is our enemy. We want to help our clients avoid the drag of clicks and thinking.

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge May 11, 2022 • 11:41 AM • 678 days ago
Each member of Bridge receives a copy of Jim Collins’ ‘Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0’ book.
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge May 11, 2022 • 11:41 AM • 678 days ago
In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, which the Bridge team is currently reading, the author Jim Collins confesses that he missed a key ingredient 25 years ago when he wrote the first edition. He states that he now realizes the most important part of achieving a great company is: getting the right people 'on the bus.’  I agree. Fourteen and a half years ago (long before I opened this book), I was lucky enough to pick up the right ‘passenger:' Moshe ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge April 12, 2022 • 5:31 PM • 707 days ago
Tracy Britt Cool shares that she looks for people and moats when investing in companies.
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge April 12, 2022 • 5:31 PM • 707 days ago
When I flew home yesterday from Charleston, while most people were seeking relief from their sunburns and reminiscing about their vacations, I was delving into The Wall St. Journal’s profile on Tracy Britt Cool, an ex- Berkshire Hathaway star.  Mrs. Cool’s new company Kanbrick invests in businesses with $10m - $50m in revenue.  What does Mrs. Cool look for when investing in a company? People and moats. 

At Bridge, we’re reading Jim ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge April 5, 2022 • 8:53 AM • 714 days ago
Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0 --> Bridge.org 2022
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge April 5, 2022 • 8:53 AM • 714 days ago
At the Bridge ‘office’ (which stretches from Seattle to Brooklyn), we’re currently reading Jim Collin’s book Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0. We’re reading the book together because it helps us learn insights into working together and running the best company we can. On page 275, Mr. Collins shares an anecdote about a group of workers at an airplane manufacturing facility during World War II. The workers found inspiration from meeting the crew ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Jan. 23, 2022 • 7:10 PM • 786 days ago
Jim Collins, in his book BE 2.0, explains how purpose and mission are important to companies. To help explain this, he uses the metaphor of crossing a mountain range and seeing a star on the horizon. Your purpose is to reach the spot on the horizon below the star. The current mission is climbing up the mountain you’re on. The next mission is climbing up the next mountain and so forth in order to get closer to the spot on the horizon. You will have many ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Dec. 30, 2021 • 6:41 PM • 810 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Dec. 30, 2021 • 6:41 PM • 810 days ago
Last February e-commerce company Shopify Inc. replaced the “Ottawa, Canada” dateline that began its press releases and earnings reports with a strange new one: “Internet, Everywhere.” The geographical shift came at the insistence of Shopify’s founder and chief executive officer, Tobi Lütke, who tends to view such matters through the prism of cold, hard logic. In May 2020, only a few months into the pandemic, he’d made the early, ...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Dec. 24, 2021 • 12:32 PM • 816 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Dec. 24, 2021 • 12:32 PM • 816 days ago
I enjoyed shopping local at this little bookshop in Litchfield, SC.  I picked up Jim Collins’ new book BE 2.0. 

Thanks to Tristan Keeffe for introducing me to Mr. Collins’ writing. 

PS - You can find the book here at Bookshop.org:
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Dec. 6, 2020 • 12:48 PM • 1,199 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Dec. 6, 2020 • 12:48 PM • 1,199 days ago
Yiren Lu shares her experience of setting up a Shopify store in the New York Times magazine.  Ms. Lu reports the setup process was easy, but her online Shopify store failed because it lacked marketing, aka eyeballs and orders.  In her next article, I hope Ms. Lu tries Bridge. Bridge Store helps members fill the marketing component that Shopify is missing. When a store joins Bridge, Bridge instantly points hundreds of links to the store from other Bridge members...Read more of post

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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Oct. 11, 2017 • 10:15 AM • 2,351 days ago
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Jason Solarek @ Bridge Oct. 11, 2017 • 10:15 AM • 2,351 days ago

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