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8 Practices Common To The Greatest Leader Role Models

Startup Professionals Musings

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred a candidate who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. They are always on the lookout for talent by peer networking, studying competitors, and working with top university contacts.

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8 Qualities That All Super Business Leaders Display

Startup Professionals Musings

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred a candidate who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. They are always on the lookout for talent by peer networking, studying competitors, and working with top university contacts.

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8 Leadership Practices That Will Make You Memorable

Startup Professionals Musings

Measure by relationships as well as competitiveness. Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred candidates who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. They are always on the lookout for talent by peer networking, studying competitors, and working with top university contacts.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. billion in recurring run-rate revenue and growing while Siebel is sold to Oracle for a mere $5.8 And weirdly the buyers of this technology often have a vested interest in buying from the incumbent.

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

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How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? You'd think that SAP would have a module, or surely Oracle has a module. Another thing is the ROI studies we've had done outside our firm by Nucleus Research. Therese Tucker: Here's the difference. Those companies offer transactional systems.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Imagine if Oracle got more vocal about Safra Catz’s relationship to Trump?

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