Germans tend to excel at business development, Russians at developing software, the French at user interfaces," says Danny Rimer, who established the London office of Index Ventures, a VC firm.
That said, companies that excel at business model innovation don't ignore product development.
This is also why, he says, Ireland has excelled at business-to-business software, but less so at business-to-consumer applications, which are pricier.
Mr. Saleh continues to excel at the business of ruling Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, a task which he has often unflatteringly likened to "dancing on the heads of snakes".
That latter decision was made because consumers don't really care about the apps that make money — they're looking for entertainment and inspiration, not which apps are excelling at their business models.
We're also a for-profit endeavor, which means we're hoping to stay sharply focused on customer needs, whether consumers or businesses, and excel at things like customer service and satisfaction.
He and Root proved to be perfect partners: Root was a far more sophisticated architect, but Burnham excelled at bringing in business.
Holliday excels at the rough business of gambling and gunfighting, more so than any of the rough men around him, and yet he is educated and elegant.
No empire, civilization, people, or religion has ever risen to greatness without, as one British officer once put it to me, excelling at "the smacking business".
Since then, he has excelled at the unsexy business of cutting costs, upgrading technology and taking care of candidates -- while the better known general party chairman, Edward G. Rendell, handles fund-raising.
The business owners who excel at harnessing that data will be the ones who truly take their success to the next level going forward.
