Before Jim McKelvey launched fintech company Square with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, he was the owner of a glassblowing studio—Third Degree Glass Factory—who missed out on a sale because he couldn ...

Innovation is a funny thing. We’d all like to be innovative, but few of us have “creativity switches” we can turn on at will. (I definitely don’t.) We’re a lot better at convergent thinking, providing ...

Square co-founder Jim McKelvey coined the term “innovation stack” to describe the series of technical, product design, manufacturing and supply chain breakthroughs a company makes to deliver a ...

It’s a relatively familiar conundrum these days: A smaller company creates a popular product, and then Amazon launches a nearly identical private label offering — and sells it at a fraction of the ...

A conversation with entrepreneur Jim McKelvey on the best way to out-innovate bigger competitors. Jim McKelvey, entrepreneur and cofounder of Square, says that most companies that think of themselves ...

The Covid-19 pandemic gave many workplaces much-needed jolts of urgency to reboot outdated management systems. One outcome we saw emerge were leaders and teams that began collaborating more ...

It’s a relatively familiar conundrum these days: A smaller company creates a popular product, and then Amazon launches a nearly identical private label offering — and sells it at a fraction of the ...