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Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company

Harvard Business Review

In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Engineering departments fetishize the theory that if you build a better mousetrap, the rest takes care of itself. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., Crystal Pepsi; MySpace 2003-2007).

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered.". million records).

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models. Splunk, a leader in business intelligence founded in 2003, is still holding onto the perpetual licensing model, even for new product lines it has launched.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.