Outsourcing: What It Takes

By Guest Authors Richard Hooker and Steve Monas [Last week, Richard and Steve explained why businesses of all sizes should outsource and stressed that organization is a critical part of outsourcing. Today’s post covers more skills entrepreneurs need to manage a successful outsourcing relationship.] As in every other aspect of starting a business, your biggest

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Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 3)

SM: Where did you gain traction? What types of investors were willing to support you? PG: I started working with other investment banks and high net worth private client groups. We started scaling up and investing in companies.

Murdoch’s Next Steps?

Continuing our analysis of media companies’ results, today we discuss Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS) and a potential acquisition for it, Monster (NYSE:MWW). For News Corp, revenue for the quarter fell 16% to $7.4 billion and was marginally short of analysts’ expectations of $7.71 billion. EPS of $1.04, however, was higher than the previous year’s $0.91.

Forbes Column 2009: The Next Frontier In Search Marketing

Zero-In looks into a new pillar of search marketing that is about to open up in a big way. Read The Next Frontier In Search Marketing.

Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 2)

SM: Valuations seldom work out in favor of the entrepreneur. I have written extensively about this. PG: There is a book called “Venture Capital at the Crossroads” which documents a lot of these issues. The book has case studies which showed that the average entrepreneur wound up with 3% of their own company at the

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Newspapers Continue To Implode

Just yesterday, I wrote that newspaper advertising in the US still commands $35 million in ad spend. But the number is declining at a fast pace. My Future of Journalism piece recently discussed some of the alternative models that are emerging. Meanwhile, The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) seems to be one of the worst

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Your Personal Assistant: Rearden Commerce CEO Patrick Grady (Part 1)

Imagine the scenario of a senior executive on a business trip. Before the executive heads out to dinner a restaurant selection is in order. Enter Rearden Commerce and their virtual personal assistant. The executive simply opens the platform and receives restaurant recommendations. How? The platform already knows meal preferences, price ranges (per diem rate) which

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