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Most Innovative Companies - Energy
It also raised $22 million in a trust, from consumers and corporate partners such as Citigroup, Office Depot, REI, and HSBC, for its clean-energy projects, issuing renewable-energy credits in return. The world's wind leader was not immune to the downturn, with a slowdown in the rate of profitability growth, but it's still expanding and gaining on a "Triple 15" target: 15% operating earnings on revenue of 15 billion euros by 2015. Sponsored by
Fast Company - Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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If the Customer Is Truly King, Then Sonoma Partners Is One Smitten Queen
So how did Chicago-based Sonoma Partners do it? The firm works exclusively with Microsoft Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management software, thus they were in a prime position to goose their bottom line during a downturn. First they identified an opportunity in the soft belly of the bear--in this case, Sonoma Partners realized that companies needed a competitive advantage more than ever and a good place to start is by solidifying bonds with customers. Any time a head of a company uses the word "upswing" in detailing his business' recent success, there is a bit of a compulsion around these parts to comment on the company.
Fast Company - Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Owen Van Natta Talks About His First 8 Months Running MySpace (video)
Are you renegotiating that or you think you’re working with another partner? VAN NATTA: We consider YouTube and Hulu to be partners today and we have their content integrated all throughout the site. VAN NATTA: Well, one of the things that we’re seeing in terms of the market is, you know, the economic downturn, as I’ve talked with a lot of CEOs and marketers, you know, brand managers, I think the economic downturn caused a lot of these companies to really reevaluate their advertising strategy I sat down with MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier this week to talk about his first eight months on the job.
TechCrunch - Saturday, January 30, 2010
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  • 6 Lessons Learned in the Downturn
    Over some good Italian cuisine and syrah in Boston's North End , we enjoyed a stimulating evening as Eric Hellweg, Managing Editor of HarvardBusiness.org, moderated a discussion centered on the question of key lessons learned in the economic downturn. key lesson in this downturn is that during difficult times, consumers make purchasing decisions based on price. Last week we held our Annual Meeting for my firm, Cue Ball, and as part of it we gathered our investor members for a stimulating dinner discussion with HBR editors Eric Hellweg and Katherine Bell, and group publisher Josh Macht.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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  • Is Web 2.0 a Solution to the Economic Downturn?
    to reinvent your business for the economic downturn .” Open your supply chain to partners on the Web. 8. to Reinvent Your Business for the Economic Downturn | Enterprise 2.0 The current business crisis is like a forest fire that is destroying much of what is in its path, but allows renewal of a new ecosystem from the seeds that are still alive after the fire passes. Dion Hinchcliffe of ZDNet advocates “ using Web 2.0
    Workplace Learning Today - Friday, January 30, 2009
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  • Why VCs Should Take Their Own Advice
    So if a partner gets fired? Well, he or she is still technically a partner in an earlier fund, so firms don’t really have to talk about it if it isn’t in their best interest. Limited partners, the institutions that invest in venture funds, are finally accepting what almost every VC I know has been saying for a decade: There’s too much money in the industry and it’s killing the kind of early stage investing the asset class was founded on. The way venture capital firms are structured makes it almost impossible for outsiders to see what’s really going on inside those 1970s lodge-like Sand Hill Road offices.
    TechCrunch - Sunday, January 24, 2010
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  • A Downturn Caution: Be Careful What You Cut
    It also improves the productivity and effectiveness of support functions, which in turn helps boost the performance of a company's front line--a powerful advantage in a downturn. Click here to read our first Winning in Turbulence post, What Does the Downturn Mean for My Business and How Will I Get Through It? Hernan Saenz is a partner in Bain & Company's Dallas office and a leader in the By Hernan Saenz and Darrell Rigby Preserving the G&A That Really Fuels Revenue
    HarvardBusiness.org - Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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  • Canaan Partners India: Early-Stage Investing in India (RWS Interview)
    For the sixth in our investor interview series, we went east to India to chat with Alok Mittal , a partner at Canaan Partners , in the company's office in Gurgaon, India . 0:22 -- How is early-stage financing doing during this downturn compared to the last one in 2001/2002? Early-stage investing is "holding up well" in this downturn compared to the last, Alok notes. We got his perspective on early-stage investing and specifically the challenges and opportunities for a venture starting out in India. Sponsor
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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  • Highland Capital Partners: Digital Media Insights (RWW Interview)
    For the fourth in our series of VC interviews, we spoke with Richard de Silva at Highland Capital Partners . Question: How is early-stage financing doing during this downturn compared to the last one in 2001/2002? Cyclical downturns amplify secular trends -- in this case, the trend towards performance advertising. Richard specializes in digital media; for example, he is on the Board of Digg. So, he seemed like the right person to ask about the theories floating around the blogosphere that we are in an advertising bubble and that online advertising is doomed.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 27, 2009
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  • ReadWriteWeb Partners With Forum One on Community Management Research
    Forum One publishes detailed reports on topics like Online Communities: Surviving & Thriving in the Downturn and Online Communities: Platform and Services Satisfaction Report . ReadWriteWeb is excited to announce that we are launching a partnership with technology consultancy Forum One Communications , focusing on online community management. Forum One hosts events, offers consulting and publishes in-depth reports about the finer points of community management based on extensive survey data gathered from diverse practitioners.
    ReadWriteWeb - Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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  • NeuHaus Partners: Early-Stage VC in Europe (RWW Interview)
    So we spoke with Paul Jazofek , Partner at NeuHaus in Germany. So this time, they are investing through the downturn. (Skip For our third VC Interview, we decided to check out the early-stage VC scene in Europe. We found him via his excellent blog . We wanted his perspective on how the venture scene in Europe differs from the one in the US.
    ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 20, 2009
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  • Ask Partners With Anchor Intelligence To Stop Fraudsters And Optimzie Ad Serving
    The downturn in the economy is apparently leading more than the usual number of ambitious click-fraudsters to try their luck. The company has always been secretive about their partners - they work with both advertising networks and advertisers/agencies and are able to compare traffic across those networks to increase data relevancy, and most of the time these partners don’t want others to know about their specific security precautions. And that’s causing ad networks to think a lot more about click fraud and the overall health of their networks, says Anchor Intelligence CEO Ken Miller .
    TechCrunch - Thursday, April 9, 2009
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  • Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results
    You'll turn a potential client into a collaborative partner who ends up buying his own idea and then working with you to make it successful. During economic downturns, when it is critical to get more done with fewer resources, getting things half right will take you half as long and give you better results. Imperfectly, I expect. Peter Bregman is CEO of Bregman Partners, Inc. , a There are times in life when I expect something to be perfect. When I open the box of my new Macbook Air, for example.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, February 2, 2009
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