from USA Today 04 Aug 14 edited by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Yelp’s origin. Back in 2004, a few entrepreneurs thought it was high time to give consumers detailed information on local merchants. Their sites would offer listings & reviews aimed at digitizing what had always been word-of-mouth experiences. All three of …
Historical Entrepreneurs that have most Influenced the World from Income Diaries.com 6/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 7/14 #3 Bill Gates, MicroSoft continued. Many people call Bill Gates a college drop-out, or that he failed college, this simply is not true at all; it was a decision he made himself, he …
from the book “The Art of the Start” by Guy Kawasaki 12-09 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 6-14 1. Focus on Cash Flow, not Profitability. The theory is that profits are the key to survival. If you could pay the bills with theories, this would be fine. The reality is that …
from Management.Fortune.CNN.com 5/12 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 6/14 Larry Page has spent his entire career at Google, and while he remains something of an enigma, his leadership style & ideals are becoming increasingly clear. He talks about them in Commencement speeches, in talks to Faculty, and to co-workers & Google …
from Linked In 10/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 5/14 Success isn’t just about hard work. We hear about hard work all the time—it’s what Olympic champions talk about, when they get to the top of the podium and it’s what the media credits as the sole force behind $Billionaire entrepreneurs. …
from Strategic Business Stream,com 7/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 5/14 Larry Ellison – Oracle 16. “If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act & …
Women starting small businesses at torrid pace SJ Mercury News 16 May 14 & Assoc Press NYC, enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz Fast Starts. If you go to work for a newer business, there’s a better chance you’ll be working for a woman. Women are starting companies at a torrid pace. …
from Huff Post 9/12 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 5/14 Search for 10 Successful Founders. As Startup & Small Business owners, we work hard to develop ourselves as leaders and seek role models, of who can help show us the way. When I became a Huffington Post blogger, I decided I …
from Think Grow Think.com 3/08 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 5/14 . . HARD WORK vs. LUCK 10) “Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison, founder of General Electric (GE) 11) “I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And …
from USA Today 25 Sept 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 5/14 3. Amazon’s 3 part Strategy starts with: 1) Amazon selling Premium products at less than premium prices”. 2) make Money when people use the devices, not necessarily when they buy them, since Amazon sells the products at roughly break-even …
from Entrepreneur.com 27 Aug 12 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 5/15 Looking for that Edge. Over the years we’ve started many Virgin businesses out of frustration at the way things were done in established sectors. Whether it was airlines, mobile telephones or financial services, we’ve stood out by focusing on ways …
Mark Cuban: $3B, Shark Tank, Dallas Maverick owner, Serial Entrepreneur and/or Investor in > 50 companies from Entrepreneur.com 09 Jan 12 enhanced by Peter.CXO Wiz4biz Mark’s Rules. Anyone who has started a business has his or her own ideas of how to run it, so I thought I would add …
from Fortune 500 magazine 2012 enhanced by Peter@ Wiz4.biz 4/13 ORACLE billionaire Larry Ellison, (co-founder & chairman ), has helped create the first commercial database to use SQL (Structured Query Language). Today, Oracle remains the largest supplier of proprietary Information Management software and one of the first companies to make …
from Papi TV.com 6/11 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 4/14 Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, who was recently a guest speaker at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, told the audience about his obsession with city life (ie, the infrastructure of the city of New York with the population of 8 …
from Strategic Business Stream.com 7/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz 3/14 Is Education it? Do you feel dejected or left behind by your peers because you don’t have a Master degree or PhD? Do you see this as a limitation to achieving your dreams? Or are you in the group that …
Strategic Business Advice for Young Entrepreneurs from Strategic Business Stream.com 7/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 3/14 23. “Reward-worthy failure is only Experimentation.” 24. “In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.” 25. “Sometimes, …
from SJ Mercury News 20 Feb 14 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz “No Ads! No Games! No Gimmicks!” is the The note that WhatsApp Founder, Jan Koum, has taped to his desk in his Mountain View office says it all: It’s from Brian Acton, Jan’s co-founder of the messaging service WhatsApp, …
7 Exceptional Leaders and their Lessons for Transforming any Business by Jeffrey Krames, Author Book Review by Achieve Max.com 10 Jan 10 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 2/14 Here’s a great Concept for teaching anyone—students, entrepreneurs, founders, or anyone to further their business careers—the value of studying the careers of some …
A review of this outstanding Auto-Bio from CNN 04 Mar 99 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 2/14 (CNN) — No, it’s not a coming of age story, as the title would lead you to believe. Or is it? Actually, it is, just not in the traditional sense of Boy meets Girl …
How contrarian Entrepreneurs create & capture Extraordinary Value !!! from USA Today 8/08/13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz 13/13 Examples of highly-successful Entrepreneurs profiled in the book include: · Vinod Kapur: founder and CEO of Kegg Farms, a company in India which developed a new breed of chicken that is bigger, …
from Linked In 13 Dec 13 enhanced by Peter/CXO Wiz4biz While the scarcity of female CEO’s in Silicon Valley is troubling, these women may well change that !!! Marissa Mayer 38 CEO of Yahoo (7/12 = 16 mo) #1 Biz Star under 40; #8 on the list of America’s most …