The innovation stack : building an unbeatable business one crazy idea at a time / Jim McKelvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKelvey, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Entrepreneurship.

Business enterprises--Technological innovations.

Business enterprises.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020]

Summary:

"In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he couldn't accept the customer's credit card. Frustrated by this problem common to small-business owners, McKelvey decided to fix it. With no relevant experience, he and friend Jack Dorsey (cofounder of Twitter) launched Square, a start-up that would empower small merchants to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones. The key to their success? A business model McKelvey calls the Innovation Stack: a cascade of interlocking solutions that creates a massive advantage. Blending dramatic and funny stories of Square's early days with fascinating examples of other world-changing companies, McKelvey reveals a pattern of ground-breaking, competition-proof entrepreneurship that is rare but repeatable. The Innovation Stack is a thrilling business narrative that's much bigger than the story of Square. It is an irreverent first-person look inside the world of entrepreneurship, and a call to action for all of us to find the entrepreneur within ourselves and identify and fix unsolved problems--one crazy idea at a time. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Solving a perfect problem. Entrepreneurs and perfect problems ; Bob and the pyramids ; Squaring up ; The innovation stack ; Squaring off ; Copies of copies

The mythical expert. Lemonade ; Entrepreneurs everywhere ; The Bank of Italy ; The boy they kicked out ; The Cloud god ; When

Innovation physics. Stack attack ; The invisible army ; Low, not lowest ; Disrupting disruption ; How it feels ; Back to zero.

Notes:

Publisher location found on publisher website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: McKelvey, Jim, The innovation stack

ISBN:

9780593086735

0593086732

OCLC:

1123181040