Is It Time For Your CEO To Go? (Part 3)

By guest author Tony Scott of ChampionScott Partners Prior CEO Experience – Does It Really Matter In A Downturn? Entrepreneurs often ask me if prior CEO experience really matters as much as investors and boards generally seem to believe, and if it is really so important if things are slow. The answer is a qualified

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Clara Shih On The Facebook Era (Part 1)

[For the next two weekends I’m featuring excerpts from a new book about using Facebook and Twitter for business: ‘The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Build Better Products, Reach New Audiences, and Sell More Stuff’ by Clara Shih, creator of the first business application on Facebook. According to Shih, Facebook is the new

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Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 3)

SM: What type of wineries did you have as customers? DM: They were high-end wineries. Shafer Vinyards, Chateau Montelena, and Spottswoode Vineyard and Winery are a few examples.

Clara Shih

Clara Shih joined salesforce.com in 2006 and is responsible for Enterprise Social Networking Alliances and Product Strategy. Previously, she was the product line director of AppExchange, salesforce.com’s online business applications marketplace, for which she led the development of the Checkout payment services for partner applications. Independently, Clara developed Faceconnector (formerly Faceforce) in 2007, the first

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Business Insanity Radio Show

I was on Barry Moltz’s Business Insanity radio show today, talking about doing business as a couple. Among other things, we discussed business as an aphrodisiac. Listen here.

Forbes Column 2009: Key To Innovation: Universities

Continuing on the investigation of Capitalism 2.0 and focusing on the theme of innovation, here’s Zero In this week with Key To Innovation: Universities.

Capitalism 2.0: Speculator vs. Creator

One of the flaws I see in Capitalism 1.0 is that speculators get compensated at a substantially higher rate than value creators. As a result, I am hearing from more and more entrepreneurs, CEOs, senior executives – the builders, so to speak – that they are no longer willing to work 60-80 hour weeks. They

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Engine For Green Jobs: Premier Power CEO Dean Marks (Part 2)

SM: How did you fund your business? Did you get financing or did you bootstrap? DM: It was all bootstrapping. The way we sold it, we would get progressive payments for a residential system. Whether it was retrofit or new construction we would get payments as modules were delivered.