{"id":111,"date":"2006-05-01T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danflies.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/01\/anyone-want-to-help-me-make-a-1b"},"modified":"2006-05-01T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T04:00:00","slug":"anyone-want-to-help-me-make-a-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/anyone-want-to-help-me-make-a-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Want to Help Me Make a $1B?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/01\/business\/smallbusiness\/01blueprint.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">In Search of&#8230;$1 Billion in Revenue &#8211; New York Times<\/a>: &#8220;BOOKSTORE shelves are crowded with how-to books for business leaders striving toward excellence. David G. Thomson&#8217;s recently published book, &#8216;Blueprint to a Billion: Seven Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth,&#8217; takes a different approach. Mr. Thomson evaluates patterns shared by what he calls &#8216;blueprint companies&#8217; \u2014 the 387 businesses that have gone public since 1980 and have reached $1 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>These star businesses represent just 5 percent of the companies that have gone public in that time frame, yet they accounted for more than half of their employment and two-thirds of their market value in 2005. Many of them are household names: Microsoft, Starbucks, Google, Nike, Genentech and Staples. Mr. Thomson notes that of the 4,000 publicly traded companies with $30 million to $1 billion in annual revenue, only 30 become billion-dollar businesses each year. &#8216;We must improve our hit rate,&#8217; he said. &#8216;If we could make that 60, we&#8217;d be a different nation.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Search of&#8230;$1 Billion in Revenue &#8211; New York Times: &#8220;BOOKSTORE shelves are crowded with how-to books for business leaders striving toward excellence. David G. Thomson&#8217;s recently published book, &#8216;Blueprint to a Billion: Seven Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth,&#8217; takes a different approach. Mr. Thomson evaluates patterns shared by what he calls &#8216;blueprint companies&#8217; \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danflies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}