By Julie Zisman, Senior Director, North America SMB Marketing, Oracle I’ve been working with small to medium businesses for a while now, and there’s one...
By Julie Zisman, Senior Director, North America SMB Marketing, Oracle I’ve been working with small to medium businesses for a while now, and there’s one question I keep asking myself. What drives someone to start their own business? It not only looks tough. It is tough. Problems from work don't just disappear when you put your head on the pillow. The SMB leaders I know tend to lose a lot of sleep. That's why, here at Oracle, we commissioned Inc. magazine to survey more than...
By Julie Zisman, Senior Director, North America SMB Marketing, Oracle I’ve been working with small to medium businesses for a while now, and there’s one question I keep asking myself. What drives...
Are you the leader of a growing SaaS company? If so, when was the last time you got a good night’s sleep? If you can’t really remember, then you’re not alone....
Are you the leader of a growing SaaS company? If so, when was the last time you got a good night’s sleep? If you can’t really remember, then you’re not alone. Start-ups and high-growth SMBs come with a laundry list of to-dos that are handled by a few core folks working with you. Keeping on top of it all can be tough; the SaaS market is dynamic, and your customers are demanding and digitally savvy. To uncover the biggest worries in the cloud landscape, we teamed up with SaaStr...
Are you the leader of a growing SaaS company? If so, when was the last time you got a good night’s sleep? If you can’t really remember, then you’re not alone. Start-ups and high-growth SMBs come with...
Every small to medium business wants to grow as fast as they can. But realistically, how much growth can any business expect? The answer depends upon how...
Every small to medium business wants to grow as fast as they can. But realistically, how much growth can any business expect? The answer depends upon how innovative you are with your products, services, and customer experience—because in the current economic climate, “growth” is mostly about taking market share away from more established competitors. The global economy has been flat for some time. Recently, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd wrote that economic growth is mediocre, at best....
Every small to medium business wants to grow as fast as they can. But realistically, how much growth can any business expect? The answer depends upon how innovative you are with your...
Are you in startup mode? Are you looking for help with mentoring, partnerships and advice on how to raise funding? Then we have some good news for you. The...
Are you in startup mode? Are you looking for help with mentoring, partnerships and advice on how to raise funding? Then we have some good news for you. The start-up community has a number of resources for small to medium business. One of the biggest is the Startup Grind Annual Conference, happening next week in Redwood City, California, Feb. 21-22. Startup Grind is a community that connects more than a million entrepreneurs in 200 cities around the world. The group offers...
Are you in startup mode? Are you looking for help with mentoring, partnerships and advice on how to raise funding? Then we have some good news for you. The start-up community has a number of...
By Rudy Lukez, Director, ERP Product Marketing, Oracle Remember the PalmPilot? How about Apple’s Newton? If you do, I’m sure you wouldn’t trade your iPhones or...
By Rudy Lukez, Director, ERP Product Marketing, Oracle Remember the PalmPilot? How about Apple’s Newton? If you do, I’m sure you wouldn’t trade your iPhones or Androids for these relics. Yet I’ve found that many small and medium business leaders are willing to stick with outdated enterprise technologies or shy away from modern cloud applications because they lack familiar interfaces. Failing to migrate to the cloud can significantly hamper your future growth plans. After all,...
By Rudy Lukez, Director, ERP Product Marketing, Oracle Remember the PalmPilot? How about Apple’s Newton? If you do, I’m sure you wouldn’t trade your iPhones or Androids for these relics. Yet...
Today is Groundhog Day. Did you see your shadow this morning? Did you even step outside your burrow? I get it. It’s the dead of winter—the mid-point between the...
Today is Groundhog Day. Did you see your shadow this morning? Did you even step outside your burrow? I get it. It’s the dead of winter—the mid-point between the December winter solstice and the first day of spring. Much of North America is in a deep freeze. Mountain bike season is weeks away, and we haven’t even hit the best skiing of the season yet. Why venture outside when you can focus on lining your nest? So often, small and medium business leaders are so busy growing,...
Today is Groundhog Day. Did you see your shadow this morning? Did you even step outside your burrow? I get it. It’s the dead of winter—the mid-point between the December winter solstice and the first...
When Super Bowl LI kicks off in Texas this Sunday, not many viewers will be pondering the evolution of business software over the last fifty-one years. Yet, the...
When Super Bowl LI kicks off in Texas this Sunday, not many viewers will be pondering the evolution of business software over the last fifty-one years. Yet, the growth of the biggest annual sporting event in the United States—with over 110 million people tuning in this year—has propelled some incredible advances in broadcasting technology, which have moved in lock-step with business tech. In looking at these advances over the years, I've identified three major trends—and...
When Super Bowl LI kicks off in Texas this Sunday, not many viewers will be pondering the evolution of business software over the last fifty-one years. Yet, the growth of the biggest annual...
As we head into 2017, small and medium business executives continue to find themselves operating in a tough new reality. In this Age of the (digitally-savvy)...
As we head into 2017, small and medium business executives continue to find themselves operating in a tough new reality. In this Age of the (digitally-savvy) Customer, you have to compete with larger, resource-rich corporations and with nimbler start-ups. And, you need to do it in a way that grabs customers’ attention and imagination as they continue to adopt new technologies—all of which is happening at an unprecedented rate. To keep growing, you need to recognize trends and...
As we head into 2017, small and medium business executives continue to find themselves operating in a tough new reality. In this Age of the (digitally-savvy) Customer, you have to compete with larger,...
This is my favorite quote regarding technology and history: “The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It ended because we invented bronze tools,...
This is my favorite quote regarding technology and history: “The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It ended because we invented bronze tools, which were more productive.” Generally attributed to a former oil minister in Saudi Arabia, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, this quote highlights the connection between the supply and use of any given resource. Originally delivered as a warning to oil-producing countries overly dependent on petrodollars, the quote is often...
This is my favorite quote regarding technology and history: “The Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of stones. It ended because we invented bronze tools, which were more productive.”...
