The Rise of the COO
Does your company have a COO today? What role does he or she play in the organization? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think.…
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The Weakest Link in The U.S. Economy
Apple used 49,400 employees to generate revenues of $65 billion in 2010. Its outsourcing partner, Chinese Foxconn, employed nearly a million people for $59 billion in the same year. In the U.S., Apple focuses on creating high-paying jobs…
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Small Biz Resource Tip: SmartReceipt
Instead of handing out boring receipts that customers will throw away the minute they leave your store or restaurant, you could be handing out marketing messages and useful information on your receipts. SmartReceipt’s software solution lets you add coupons…
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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month
I’ve been meaning to post about Mark Suster’s 9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month for a couple of months now. What a great reminder, and useful in a lot of contexts.
Mark makes his point about the…
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SocialMedia Examiner’s Mike Stelzner on How He Got Started (Video)
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Will Nook and Fire Scrooge iPad’s Holidays?
Looking ahead to a holiday season in which it hopes to ride high with its iPhone 4S, Macs and industry-dominating iPad, Apple made a few power plays this week. First, it awarded bonuses of 150,000 stock shares…
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The Next New Disruption
If you've been in this business any length of time, you've become accustomed to disruptive innovation. More than anywhere else you can name, the front office has been a hotbed for introducing game-changing new technologies since the…
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Big Money for Big Data
Accel Partners is launching a $100 million fund to identify -- and fund -- entrepreneurs at every layer of the big data stack, in particular, those developing projects for the Apache Hadoop platform. The Accel Big Data…
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Holiday Shoppers Get Mobile, Social Even in Stores
By Rieva Lesonsky
I posted on this site on Monday about some holiday shopping trends that small retailers should know about–among them the increasing popularity of online shopping, social shopping and mobile shopping. Today, I’ve got more to say on…
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How Creating an Imaginary Friend Can Make You a Better Writer
Most kids ditch their imaginary friends along with their sippy cups and security blankets.
That’s a good thing, right?
Well, marketers have discovered a new benefit to finding (and keeping) those…
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