BIG IDEA: WHY DID THE IDEA FAIL?[1] Abstract: The case of Phil Vischer and Big Idea Entertainment‚ the company that created the VeggieTales video series‚ illustrates many of the problems faced by successful small businesses as they attempt to grow into larger firms. VeggieTales‚ a computer-animated series for children‚ was the most successful direct-to-video series in history yet‚ due to a series of misfortunes and miscalculations‚ Big Idea Entertainment went bankrupt and was ultimately
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which is used by a fisherman to trap fishes by catching a fish’s attention. Mostly all lures are attached at the bottom of a fishing line and are helpful in attracting a fish in more than one way. For example the various movements‚ vibrations‚ shapes and colors of lures spontaneously catch a fish’s attention and help in catching the fish. What are LED lures? L.E.D. lures or Light Emitting Diode Lures are the fishing lures which have LED light in them. Apart from the various properties of a normal
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Greenleaf is a large accounting firm. Actually‚ they are one of the Big Eight accounting firms. Daniel Potter was a recent graduate of an Ivy League school before working for Baker Greenleaf. He understood the values and work ethics that he should follow. There came a time when he was assigned an account which was not new to Baker Greenleaf. The account was very important. In the past‚ Baker Greenleaf shared the account with another Big Eight accounting firm. Baker felt that they should be the only accounting
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Anatomy of a Spiny Dogfish Shark The dogfish shark has a very complex‚ unique exterior and interior structure. The body shape benefits the shark for its swimming ability and survival necessities‚ while the interior structure ensures correct digestion and proper health. Every specific part plays a key role in the anatomy of the shark. There are three main sections categorized as the head‚ trunk‚ and tail. Located in the head section is the eye‚ spiracle‚ gill slits‚ mouth‚ and nostril. The rostrum
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What is Big-Push theory of economic development? The theory of "bigh push’ is associated with the name of Professor Paul N. Rosenstein-Rodan. This theory is needed in the form of a high minimum amount of investment to overcome to obstacles to development in an underdeveloped economy and to launch it in the path of progress. Rosenstein-Rodan distinguishes between three different kinds of indivisibilities and external economies. One‚ indivisibilities in the production function‚ especially the indivisibility
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Big Mac Index The McDonald’s corporation – “McDonald ’s is the leading global food-service retailer with more than 34‚000 local restaurants serving nearly 69 million people in 118 countries each day” (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). The statistics alone are impressive for a company that started as a single restaurant in Des Plaines‚ IA in April‚ 1955 (McDonalds Corporation‚ 2014). Even more impressive is the influence McDonald’s has on global economic forecasting by virtue of its signature sandwich
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Courtship Behavior: Pursuit Courtship behavior in betta fish can be aggressive‚ but females have learned to balance male parental quality with the negatives that comes with spawning‚ risks can be minimized through negative size assertive mating (Clotfelter et al. 2006). He starts by trying to lure her into his nest. They present their choreographed dance to the female to get her attention‚ including fanning his wings. If she is interested she will swim towards the male with her head down and fins
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outward to make the billions of galaxies of our vast universe. Astrophysicists dubbed this titanic explosion the Big Bang. The Big Bang was like no explosion you might witness on earth today. For instance‚ a hydrogen bomb explosion‚ whose center registers approximately 100 million degrees Celsius‚ moves through the air at about 300 meters per second. In contrast‚ cosmologists believe the Big Bang flung energy in all directions at the speed of light (300‚000‚000 meters per second‚ a hundred thousand
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FISH! - Stephen Lundin‚ Harry Paul‚ Jon Christensen ‘There is always a choice about the way you do your work‚ even if there is not a choice about the work itself’ A very powerful statement. As a person with a work experience of a couple of years this sentence would have changed the way i approached my work and things related to me. That’s why this book connected with me from the very beginning. The story of the book revolves around the story of Mary Jane Ramirez and her workplace and
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BIG MAC INDEX WHAT IS A BIG MAC INDEX? The big Mac index is a theory dealing with PPP purchase power parity. The big Mac index was created by the Economist based on the Purchase Power theory‚ the first step understands what the Purchase power theory is. Here is a brief example to better understand the purchase power theory; suppose that one US dollar is currently in the market for ten Argentinean pesos. In the United States a soccer ball costs $40 while in Argentina they sell the same soccer
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