SaaStr Founder, serial entrepreneur, and investor Jason Lemkin called one on ones the "#1 management hack” and says,"There isn't a better investment you can make in your VPs than meeting either once a week, or at least, once every 2 weeks.” Meanwhile,Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforc...
Sean Parker is an American entrepreneur whom most associate with the music-sharing platform Napster. Parker founded Napster with childhood friend Shawn Fanning and the service was launched in June 1999 while the pair were still teenagers. Napster’s ulti
Speed. This one word sums up the most critical business differentiator of our times. As the American entrepreneur, Marc Benioff aptly says, “Speed is the new currency of business.” Tech enterprises are leaving no stone unturned to achieve business velocity. But what if businesses on their ...
Spotify’s upside is limited by its marginal costs—that is, the royalties it pays the record labels from which it licenses the vast majority of its music catalog. Despite its impressive continued growth in terms of users and revenue, Spotify’s margins are “at the mercy of the record labe...
Your startup’s business model is essentially the way your business will generate income. This is often confused with business strategy, but both are subtly different from each other. In this article, I’m going to outline exactly what a business model is, along with examples of successful...
Salesforce Chairman & Co-CEO (and new Time magazine owner) Marc Benioff will introduce keynote speakers such as former U.S. Vice President & Generation Investment Management Founder Al Gore, PG&E CEO & President Geisha J. Williams, Golden State Warriors Basketball Player & Entrepreneur Andre Iguo...
The profile of the typical entrepreneur is different from the picture painted by the media. The Successful Entrepreneur’s Secret Scott D. Anthony, author of The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times, introduces a lesson in correcting your company’s course from Behind the Clou...
Salesforce (CRM) cofounder Marc Benioff holds both roles, and, like many founders, remains the name and face of the company. Elon Musk served as chair and CEO of Tesla (TSLA) until 2018, when he stepped down as chair as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission...