Entrepreneurship
Clowning with parking meters (1/23/1999)
A clown irks the police but pleases shoppers by feeding expired parking meters for tips
Keywords: clown, entrepreneurship, parking meters
Mistaken Identity (2/2/2000)
A mistaken identity can confer temporary competitive advantage to a business because of insufficient information on the part of naïve customers.
Keywords: call forwarding, capacity, florists, identity, market signaling, property, theft, yellow pages
Squatters' Rights (1/23/1999)
Squatters move in when cost of accessing and hoarding scarce resources are low. They profit from charging others for the use of hoarded resources.
Keywords: 888, cybersquatters, entrepreneurship, property rights, squatters, toilet squatters, toll free numbers