McDonald’s Corporation (MCD) Secret Ingredient: Creating Something Out of Nothing

To this day, Microsoft is repeatedly wiping the canvass clean and starting new. The company is still the world’s largest software maker, but now it is moving into other fields, such as its 2011 $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype. Microsoft is also set to release its Xbox One gaming console in November. The staying power of this firm ties closely with its ability to not only adjust to consumer demand, but to also create consumer demand by inventing something out of nothing.

Facebook

This company also has humble beginnings, and anyone who has seen The Social Network knows why. Harvard University student at the time, Mark Zuckerberg developed the social networking platform along with his roommates. The students worked diligently in 2003 to essentially create something out of nothing. Ten years later, and the company is one of the most used and talked-about firms in the world. As of September 2012, Facebook had over one billion users.

The company is now branching out and recently released a Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Home interface with the Android smartphone software. The firm is also raking in money from advertisers on the social networking site. This shows that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), like McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), is able to identify demand, and what could be in demand. Filling in an empty canvass is recreated by these firms after they have nearly perfected a different segment of their businesses, such as the social networking platform of Facebook. Facebook Home could help the firm create more revenue, due to the software’s ability to essentially create a Facebook smartphone.

A sixth sense

All three companies are leaders in their respective fields, and it took both talent and hard work to be able to build companies that changed the world. What these firms have done in the past directly ties in with what they offer for the future. As long as each company brings in passionate people and continues to fund research and development, the canvass will never be blank for long.

The article McDonald’s Secret Ingredient: Creating Something Out of Nothing originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Phillip Woolgar.

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