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The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time by Jim McKelvey (Hardcover, 2020)

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But just as Square was taking off launched a similar product marketed it aggressively and undercut Square on price. Instead less than a year later was in retreat and soon discontinued its service. Publisher: Portfolio (12 Mar 2020).

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The co-founder of Square outlines an inspiring philosophy of entrepreneurship, telling the story of how his company was born out of a passion to solve frustrating problems in both business and society, and giving entrepreneurs a strategic guide to building a resilient business. In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and technologist named Jim McKelvey joined his friend Jack Dorsey (the co-founder of Twitter) to launch Square, a payments processing startup that would enable small merchants who had been excluded from the credit card ecosystem to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones. Motivated by their impulse to square up the industry and make an unfair system fair, they set out to fix this problem McKelvey had experienced personally. Despite having no expertise or experience in the world of payments, they experimented and innovated their way through early challenges to develop a product that saw widespread adoption from merchants small and large. Just as Square was beginning to find success, Amazon launched a similar product, marketed it aggressively, and undercut Square on price. For most ordinary startups, this would have spelled the end. Instead, less than a year later, Amazon was in retreat, and soon discontinued its service. How did Square beat the most dangerous company on the planet? Was it just luck? These questions motivated McKelvey to study what Square had done differently from all the other companies Amazon had killed and stuffed into smiling cardboard boxes. He eventually found the key- a strategy he calls the innovation stack. The innovation stack is a cascade of interdependent business decisions that create a competitive advantage. In Square's case, it was a series of fourteen inventions from free signup to immediate settlement that formed an impenetrable defense against copycat competitors. Your competition might be able to copy one innovation, but a business model based on a series of interlocking solutions is a lot harder to replicate. McKelvey's fascinating and humorous stories of Square's early days are blended with historical examples of other world-changing companies--all of them guided by an impulse to square up an industry that was leaving many behind--to reveal a pattern of groundbreaking, competition-proof entrepreneurship that is rare but repeatable. Squaring Up 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 entrepreneurial spirit inside ourselves, and identify and fix unsolved problems, one crazy idea at a time.

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PublisherRandom House USA INC International Concepts

ISBN-139780593086735

eBay Product ID (ePID)19046570007

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Publication Year2020

SubjectBusiness

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameThe Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time

TypeTextbook

AuthorJim Mckelvey

FormatHardcover

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Item Height220 mm

Item Width150 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Title_AuthorJim Mckelvey

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