Reiter Thinks

JUNE 8, 2011

This is part two of the blog, To the class of 2011. It picks up with my predictions for what the class of 2011 might expect now as they move forward with their lives over the next couple of years. For a large number of people who aren’t engineers and computer science majors you’re probably going to revert back to what you know.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. When was the last time you entered a new market? Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 22, 2011

What if you don’t have the time or inclination to dedicate resources to this type of marketing? What if you don’t understand these types of marketing avenues? 20 Best Marketing and Social Media Blogs by Women from Forbes Includes WomenOnBusiness.com Forbes.com published a list of the top 20 marketing and.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

I actually prefer to play to the middle in that I am neither understated nor overstated, but I am comfortable with who I am and my approach to the market. and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. based labor. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Just last week Bob was watching television after dinner, but he wasn’t really watching. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Great work… [link] davidburkus Good list. I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. I’m not an MBA.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Despite recent signs of recovery in the labor market , there are still more than 12 million unemployed job seekers. Census Bureau announced that the percentage of Americans who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 — 11.6 Of workers who were laid off in 2011 and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. That's why most investments in Africa are in mature industries like oil & gas, real estate, and finance, among others.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. Snapchat, an idea conceived in 2011, is now valued around $16 billion, with more than 100 million active users who send an average of over 400 million snaps per day.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company delayed entering the robo-advisor market until it had results from two years of testing. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Salinas instituted market reforms lauded by Washington, including the North American Free Trade Agreement. Euphoric foreign financiers, chasing high returns in "emerging markets" and enamored of Salinas, gladly complied. Why can the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. In 2011 it was $2 billion , good for third place. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. Not focused on new marketing campaigns. It takes longer to raise money.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The Supreme Court is going to host a debate next week on the efficient market hypothesis. a case scheduled to go to oral arguments on March 5, the Supremes are reconsidering the “fraud on the market” doctrine at the heart of most securities-class-action lawsuits. The battle lines may not be exactly what you’d expect: the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

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. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. Web developers can personalize recommendation engines, allow users to see their friends' purchase history, and draw on detailed demographic data available through the Facebook network. display advertisements online.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Startups are an engine of prosperity, albeit a highly imperfect one. By this logic, there’s no reason to applaud the growing number of graduates from top universities opting for jobs in startups and tech rather than finance. But the economic case against startups is prone to overreach and represents a dangerous kind of cynicism.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. May I take to heart these good words of advice in 2011 and the years ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. In 2011, Havens’ collaboration with IBM procurement paid off, winning Havens four significant projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems. percent lower than its value in 2007. And what does President Roger want to be when he grows up?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Thanks David.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Different operational skills.

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