Hats off to the leadership of BizTimes Milwaukee, Dan Meyer and Steve Jagler, for inviting Josh Linkner as the leadoff speaker for the recent Biz-Tech Conference & Expo. Linkner’s focus was on growth through creativity and innovation. Linkner has been a successful entrepreneur, having founded ePrize. He is also a venture capitalist and knows how…
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Mark Zuckerberg Is Time Magazine’s Man of the Year. Why? One simple word explains it, Innovation. No question anyone who can garner 500 million new customers in less than five years is doing something remarkably new. He represents the face of innovation in America. Has introduced what has been called “disruptive technology”. This means that…
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Most of us have heard of Salesforce.com. Salesforce rents software for managing customer relationships and delivers their product exclusively over the Internet through what is now known as cloud computing. The Associated Press documented that Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com, saw the opportunity of saving customers significant amounts of money. Prior to his starting…
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As our economy continues to struggle to recover from the recession, there is a general sense that things will not return to business as usual. Many business leaders are being forced to look in new directions for growth. Here are some interesting examples of leaders who passed new opportunities: In 1876, Western Union decided that…
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