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Feed SubscriptionWhat Will Today’s Apple Earnings Call Reveal?
Today Apple has an earnings call for its first quarter results for the fiscal year. They'll cover the all-important holiday season sales window, and could be seen as the first real moment when new CEO Tim Cook expresses his leadership of the company that was Steve Jobs's baby until recently.
Read More »How to Pitch a Risky Investment
By the time you're finished, you'll have them pitching you your own idea. One of our clients is considering a major strategic investment that could help the company become a major player in an adjacent product market
Read More »A Tropical Green Wonderland
Sadar + Vuga built Ljubljana, Slovenia's renovated Chamber of Commerce building, encasing it in a green-and-clear facade and adorning the interior with long, winding troughs of lush vines. For the first major renovation to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry office in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the government contacted a local architecture and design firm, Sadar + Vuga. When the work ended, a new fa
Read More »Netflix Hits 25 Million Subscribers, $789 Million Revenue, Responds To Price Backlash
The numbers for Netflix's second quarter are in, and despite recent criticism, the company's not too far from hitting its mark. Subscriptions are up by 1.8 million, to more than 25 million global subscribers, an increase of 70% year-over-year, while global revenue hit $789 million, a 52% uptick from the same quarter last year--though slightly less than the $791 million analysts had expected
Read More »Buying Back the Company
Being owned by eBay was making StumbleUpon sleepy, Garrett Camp concluded.
Read More »iTunes Match Will Lead Us To Our Subscription Future: Music Execs
Sure, Apple's new syncing service might help the music industry recoup some of the money it's lost to piracy.
Read More »Projectline Services
Every employee at Projectline Services has an opportunity to shape the direction of the company. "You spend a lot of time working with the people around you, more so sometimes than you get to spend with your family," says Mike Kichline, CEO of Projectline Services. "You have to like being around them." That's why Projectline Services established an employee panel that serves as a liason between employees and the executives, helping make benefit decisions and suggestions to improve the company.
Read More »Best Courses 2011: Entrepreneurial Selling
University of Chicago Taught by: Craig Wortmann Though marketing courses are legion in business schools, sales classes are hen's-teeth rare. That's one reason Craig Wortmann's class feels so refreshing. The other reason is that Wortmann, a clinical associate professor and former CEO of two software companies, customizes material for the kind of scared and starving entrepreneur he once was.
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