SolarCity: Where Sunshine Meets Innovation
SolarCity brings clean energy to the masses through an innovative, customer first approach.
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Y Combinator: Accelerating Innovation
Merits of the Startup Accelerator Model
New Balance: Keeping America Running
In an industry that has gone overseas for manufacturing, New Balance is made in America and on track for success.
Warby Parker’s Prescription for Disrupting “Four-Eyed” Fashion
How a company with $95 glasses changed the $65 billion-per-year eyewear industry — and gave the gift of sight to those who need it most.
Nike: Lapping The Competition
Nike aligns operating and business model to drive performance and lap its competition.
Ryanair: Low prices without “unnecessarily pissing people off”
Ryanair is Europe’s largest low-fare airline and its focus on having the lowest possible cost also made it one of the most profitable airlines in the world. However, those profits came at the expense of, in Ryanair’s CEO own words, “unnecessarily pissing people off”.
Bolt Bus – Disrupting the Urban Transit Market
Bolt for a Buck. This simple concept has created value—an estimated $85MM* in annual revenues for Peter Pan and Greyhound who partnered to create BoltBus in 2007—in a formerly stagnant bus transportation industry.1 BoltBus’ business model is simple: to transport […]
HubSpot is Effectively Evangelizing Inbound Marketing
HubSpot's business model and operating model are an example of a unified and effective vision.
New Belgium: Brewing Success
Employee ownership and a strong sense of purpose have fueled New Belgium's rise to the top of the craft beer pyramid, creating highly motivated employees and loyal customers.
Ocean Optics: Miniaturized Spectrometers – A tiny solution looking for big problems
Ocean Optics make spectrometry measurement easier and more accessible than ever. Given a myriad of possible applications, how can they find the right customers and the right problems to solve?