In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 1, 2012

In my blog of last week, entitled A Monster of an Idea , I gave kudos to the Monster Beverage Corporation for becoming a ridiculously -profitable, high-growth $2 billion dollar enterprise despite ignoring the Holy Grail of marketing commandments. Like Monster, Red Bull was also created by an entrepreneur.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 6, 2014

An experienced marketing executive, successful entrepreneur and author, Joe is recognized […]. In an age of shrinking attention spans, non-stop interruptions, and a flood of information, the messages business leaders send out are getting lost in a sea of words.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Instead of keeping strategic deliberations within the C-Suite, they open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders—front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Are we all entrepreneurs now? What’s more, the proportion of entrepreneurs with high levels of education has also been declining, with data showing a fall from 12.2% There is also evidence to suggest that the entrepreneurs that are in operation are less creative and innovative than their forebears. Hype run wild.

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CO2

DECEMBER 22, 2015

It has become a source is frustration to me working with Entrepreneurs and hearing those three letters together E.O.S. Entrepreneurs Operating System). It is through those decisions and combination of how the organization determines to meet the market that it then determines what activities need to be done and how.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Eric Koester, Zaarly’s co-founder and chief marketing officer, provides great tips to any new start-ups in the early stages. Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar. We are successful with team-building, thoughtful management, partnership building, and market savvy. Here are three tips you may want to follow. Great Clips.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. Yes, I will talk to my manager and see if we can do that for you.” How about, “YES, I can do some hard work for you even though it would be easier for me to just say no.” The result? Related posts: Are Your Client Delight Efforts Misplaced?

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Starting Your Own Business? Have you ever thought about running your own business?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. In fact, about half of all new ventures created are actually created by hybrid entrepreneurs—individuals who keep their day jobs and start a venture on the side. [5]

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Can we please agree that there is no such thing as a corporate entrepreneur? The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. Fly-your-own-plane-to-your-own-private-island-level wealth. Persistence.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. …And the Clients Went Wild! :

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Many people come to the Silicon Valley in search of nonconformist entrepreneurs, looking for the next big thing. The way to conform in the Silicon Valley is to act like an entrepreneur. To find a nonconformist entrepreneur, we should look to places where entrepreneurship is unpopular. Consider Tokyo.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You could call this person the Chief Entrepreneur (CE) — someone who can lead the future of the company while the CEO takes cares of running the existing business. I’ve written up a job description below to make the search easier for Fortune 50 companies: Are you a Chief Entrepreneur? You persevere.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

As an entrepreneur who founded and runs a successful and growing business, Getaroom , I see many entrepreneurs with great ideas but no clue how the business will be profitable. For my company, I focused on a big market and found a profitable and attractive niche. Find your niche in a sizable market.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), About the Author Rich Christiansen describes himself as ‘a perfectly good business executive, turned entrepreneur.’ He was General Manager at both Mitsubishi Electric and About.com.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Their advice can be invaluable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

It lies behind successful product companies like Apple, Dropbox, and Kickstarter, but it can also lead entrepreneurs predictably to failure. This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

What they—and I, for that matter—didn’t realize then is that I was well on my way along my career path of choice: being an entrepreneur. The entrepreneurs who rise the fastest tend to be the ones who know to work their connections rather than just pitching wildly.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 26, 2015

She brings more than 20 years of corporate experience in human relations, leadership/ management, sales, marketing, and training. With a passion for developing accountable and proactive workplaces, Laurie Sudbrink established Unlimited Coaching Solutions, Inc. She has been a catalyst for change in the workplace ever since.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 31, 2008

Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur. The Journey I had The Chicken Soup for Entrepreneur’s Soul , but I was looking for The Art of the Start. Meanwhile, some Wild Women Entrepreneurs were wandering aimlessly and asking, “Has anyone found an Invincibelle ?” Its even 100% free! Speaker Bringing Ideas To Life.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Undo matters, in other words, because its appearance almost always signals that a market has gone from fringe to mainstream, with profits set to follow. Paul Kedrosky is an investor, entrepreneur, and a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Buffalo Wild Wings, a Minneapolis-based restaurant chain that specializes in wings, has a market cap in excess of $1 billion. Others competitors like Pioneer Meats also market them). And yet when marketing the innovation to consumers, Farmland is continually met with skepticism. Americans love chicken wings.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 23, 2019

What does it take to be a serial, successful entrepreneur in a highly competitive industry? Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell.” – Seth Godin. Your Story. Is there a core philosophy that helps turn “good enough” into a wildly successful brand? ” –Mary Catherine Bateson.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Recently I''ve advised entrepreneurs and innovators about a different, seemingly better, dilemma: pop-up opportunities that look like short cuts to success. In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. professional organizations. Control your identity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

The interviewees, who were in the process of an M&A deal or who had recently been through one, included C-suite executives, private equity dealmakers, business owners, entrepreneurs, and middle managers. “Who will still have a chair when the music stops becomes the daily question,” Feil added.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

It's not as if we can say that risk belongs to the entrepreneur and safety to the established enterprise. Risk avoidance would be the order of the day if we weren't learning that (1) innovation matters and (2) innovation demands a certain recklessness of spirit. And it's not as if we can simply divide the labor.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

s dynamo Chief Marketing Officer and senior vice president Beth Comstock after my last book, Little Bets , came out, and she got right back to me with a mailing address to send it to. Email addresses are usually firstname.lastname@company.com or, if it’s an entrepreneur, firstname@company.com. I also cold emailed G.E.’s

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Because disruptive innovations are in search of a yet-to-be-defined market, we can't know the opportunity at the outset. Time to disrupt myself.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

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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. Michael Fertik is a repeat Internet entrepreneur and CEO with experience in technology and law. Michael recently co-authored Wild West 2.0 Diversity on your founding team will give you strength.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Some entrepreneurs and executives fight to hold onto business at all costs, recognizing that it’s easier to retain a customer than to win a new one. But over time, I became less interested in the tactical – calling up reporters to come to press conferences – and more interested in media and marketing strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

And while the competition among VC firms to fund the next big thing is fierce, Greylock has an advantage, as Medium’s Ev Williams notes: "The thing I heard, time after time, was David [Sze, a Greylock partner] was always trying to do the right thing for the entrepreneur."

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