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Five more reasons DEMO Fall 2010 will really jam

Topics: Consultant, Management, Marketing, Networking, Sales

Rarely have I been as excited about the huge trends we're seeing in technology as I am right now. Billion-dollar businesses are being created and destroyed. And the best place to get into the thick of things is DEMO Fall 2010, right here in Silicon Valley, next Monday through Wednesday, September 13-15. We're going to see nearly 70 companies launching new products on stage. They're shaking up industries from dating to healthcare to real estate and consumer electronics. And speakers from industry titans and upstarts will share their views of the battlefield. You're not going to want to miss this…

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3 Key Building Blocks For Your Company'S Culture

Topics: Consultant, Entrepreneur

Building your company's culture ultimately comes down to three things, says Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, an international consulting firm. In this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given at Stanford University, Friere says those three things are behavior, symbols and processes. It's easy to talk a big game, but if your company is not living up to its hyperbole, that has a big impact on what employees come to believe about the firm. Just as critical is how you choose to reward workers with both money and time. And the ways you measure and compensate for performance also have…

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What a Good CEO Does: Three Things

Topics: Consultant, Management, Marketing, Termination

Steve Tobak is a consultant, writer, and former senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He's the managing partner of Invisor Consulting, a Silicon Valley-based firm that provides strategic consulting, executive coaching, and speaking services to CEOs and management teams of small-to-mid-sized companies. One of the most endearing and important qualities that uniquely defines us as humans is the way we pass on what we've learned to subsequent generations. Fortunately, that doesn't just happen in families. It happens in business, too. And while one person's experience may be the next person's nonsense, there is…

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Baby Face a Challenge in Start-up

Topics: Consultant, Copyright, Entrepreneur, Limited Liability Company

The new movie "Social Network"-due to hit theaters in coming weeks-may inspire some college students to attempt to emulate the film's hero, Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg. But the reality is that many young entrepreneurs find their tender age isn't an asset. The success of start-ups like Facebook and Google Inc., which was co-launched by then twentysomethings Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has planted the idea of entrepreneurship in more students' brains. Some 40% of youths between the ages of eight and 21 say they'd like to start their own business in the future, according to a 2007 study-the most…

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HP Hunts Former CEO Hurd To Hurt Oracle Over Hire

Topics: Advertising, Consultant, Marketing, Partnership

Erik Sherman is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Fortune, Inc, Newsweek Japan, the Financial Times, Chief Executive, Advertising Age, and CIO Insight. Before going into journalism, he was head of product marketing at a publicly-held technology company and later was an independent business consultant. Only yesterday I wrote of the reasons why Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison would regret hiring former Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd as a co-president of his company. The one thing I failed to mention was that HP is, of necessity,…

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Fed's Beige Book Shows Widespread "Deceleration" In The Economy

Topics: Accounting, Consultant, Contract, Loan, Management

The September Beige Book is out. You can read the whole thing here . Most of this sounds pretty standard issue, except that "Deceleration" of the economy is being seen across the economy. Despite the big D-word you see there, the market doesn't seem to be reacting too much on the news. Stocks at the moment are still up. -------------- Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts suggested continued growth in national economic activity during the reporting period of mid-July through the end of August, but with widespread signs of a deceleration compared with preceding periods. Economic growth at a…

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