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John Thompson, Symantec Corporation Stick to Core Mission, Focus, and Keep It Simple John Thompson talks about the key driver at Symantec - product focus.To meet this goal, the enterprise was forced to make difficult decisions, including ...
John Thompson, Symantec Corporation Customer Diversity is Essential Thompson stresses the need for customer diversity. Software companies that were dependent on Fortune 1000 companies for their business suffered when their niche clients also suffered ...
John Thompson, Symantec Corporation Acquisition and Growth for Symantec Thompson talks about how Symantec was looking at changing from a software business to a content business. He shares the history about the marriage between ...
Judy Estrin, JLABS, LLC The Role of the Startup is to Create a New Market Innovation will drive the next cycle, says Estrin. Startups don't succeed in validated markets; the role of startups is to create a new market, she ...
Judy Estrin, JLABS, LLC How to Survive in a Downturn Economy Estrin talks about the key things that entrepreneurs can do to adapt to the climate today: 1) Adjust the business model and expenses. 2) Ask yourself, can ...
David Neeleman, JetBlue Seeing Failure as Opportunity Neeleman tells the story of his first startup failure during college, and the airline partner he was working went out of business. He shortly thereafter ...
Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund for Women Distributing Capital: Using an Exisiting, Well Informed Network One of the premises of the way the Global Fund for Women thought about distributing capital to social entrepreneurs was that there already existed a ...
Gordon Ringold, Affymax Research Institute How to Operate in a Downturn Economy Surromed has had to adapt its business plan, downsize the company, and pair down numbers of diseases, says Ringold. Things are very different from when ...