Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurs’
At Silicon Valley Startups, Sales Must Come First
While I was a student at Stanford, I got the chance to attend a seminar featuring Kathryn Gould, prominent entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Speaking about her time in the 1980s at the then-startup, Oracle, Gould said something that stuck out to me. At the time, she said, “All that mattered to Larry [Ellison – co-founder and former CEO…
Read MoreForbes.com – The First Five Phases of Starting a High Velocity Business
Too often, small businesses fail to actually become high velocity businesses. They start out on the right foot but, ultimately, their fire goes out and all that’s left is smoke. For those entrepreneurs looking to start a new high velocity business, Ken Krogue has some advice for you. With a plan consisting of five phases,…
Read MoreForbes.com – The Death of SEO: The Rise of Social, PR, and Real Content
“SEO will be dead in 2 years.” So says Adam Torkildson, a top SEO consultant who predicted this death sentence nearly four months ago, as reported in Ken Krogue’s latest Forbes.com article. Certainly, a controversial position for this must-read article. Google has moved us closer with the launch of Penguin. Ken delivers some enlightenment on…
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