These small businesses are hungry to both learn about existing technologies and to deploy them in their day-to-day business operations. Because many are start-ups, they see selling products or services online as a way to generate revenue quickly.
Quotes about start-ups (16 Quotes)
David Archer's background in technology, marketing and executive management combined with his entrepreneurial spirit makes him uniquely qualified to lead CET. As former senior-level executive with global enterprises and more recently an entrepreneur himself, David is passionate about helping businesses succeed. His experience will be welcome in creating programs to attract, retain and assist Nevada entrepreneurs and technology start-ups.
A lot of the innovations are coming from start-ups. Anything that's going to increase the performance of the underlying plumbing, these are the tools that are going to be of interest from an enterprise standpoint. Also, anything that gives enterprises more control over their networks - even if the networks are outsourced - is going to reap the benefits.
Acquisitions are very important. And in fact one of the distinguishing factors between Cisco, Lucent, and Nortel is the ability to successfully acquire. Most of the new exciting technologies are coming from start-ups. And the ability for these companies to identify those start-ups and properly integrate them is going to be an ongoing differentiating factor.
Mergers and acquisitions and start-ups are, in actuality, a form of market expansion. Therefore, growing the business in new, high-potential markets is clearly a desired outcome of using international assignments in Europe as a key staffing strategy.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
The No. 1 problem facing dot-comers is the amount of commitment and time spent at these start-ups at the expense of the employee's personal life. People make the sacrifice of putting the job ahead of relationships and personal health.
I expect more companies to pick off private players, start-ups that don't have the funding to make it to next level. You're not going to see large public company transactions anymore. History has proven that they don't work since they are too difficult and time consuming.
Today, investors large and small continue to bank on Web start-ups, with little regard to profitability. Investors continue to ignore quality, ... Rather than looking at a company's earnings, they're still looking at hype and market potential.
I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.
I've seen hundreds of start-ups across Silicon Valley. The little-known secret is that community colleges produce more tech workers than Stanford of Berkeley combined. And many of their graduates go on to found their own companies.
I'm intrigued by some of these start-ups in the Web 2.0 space. They don't cost an arm and a leg, but they have no business model.
We're seeing improvements in stock market investments, the manufacturing industry, new business start-ups and overall economic strength.
David is uniquely qualified to head our new business, ... He has experience in launching successful start-ups, and in running multi-billion dollar businesses, just what we need to head a global venture that, on day one, will be a 10 billion company.
A critical requirement for start-ups is that they've identified an area where pain is extreme, so extreme that a company is willing to deal with a start-up and willing to pay money for it. No question, it's tough.
The Vegas Venture Forum is a perfect opportunity for an affluent individual looking to provide capital for business start-ups.