Word: mousetrap
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...could the forecasts have been so wrong? The answer is that we've been tracking only part of the innovation story. If I go to grad school and invent a better mousetrap, I've created value, which I can protect with a patent and capitalize on by selling my invention to consumers. But if someone else figures out a way to use my mousetrap to replace his much more expensive washing machine, he's created value as well. We tend to put the emphasis on the first kind of value creation because there are a small number of inventors...
...porn industry. Meanwhile, Harvard students across campus are having trouble getting I-Banking jobs. Will the Northwest Valley be the new Wall Street?BGE: [Laughs.] Times are tough, but my general advice remains the same: creative, innovative entrepreneurship. Start a business, run a company, build a better mousetrap. That’s where the future lies...
...story’s like a mousetrap,” he said. “You leave the cheese, and suddenly: Boom! Something happens...
...used the same offensive system since 1985,” head coach Tim Murphy says. “But you tweak it every year—you try to build a better mousetrap...
...nods. "And she did too," she says. Her name is Donna Ward, and she works in a mousetrap factory. "I've made up my mind," she says. "He's my man. He knows exactly what we want." When I ask her what impressed her most, she can't point to anything in particular. She's quiet for a moment, then says, "It's more the whole feeling...