To land (and stay) on the Inc. 5000, high-growth small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) need to look for ways to expand—more sales, more employees, bigger market...
To land (and stay) on the Inc. 5000, high-growth small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) need to look for ways to expand—more sales, more employees, bigger market share, new markets. But expansion requires money. You know the adage—it takes money to make money. That made us wonder how important finance is to those companies that exemplify high-growth. As you may know, Inc. Media and Oracle revisited a partnership from 2017, where we reached out to past and present Inc. 5000...
To land (and stay) on the Inc. 5000, high-growth small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) need to look for ways to expand—more sales, more employees, bigger market share, new markets. But expansion...
A comfort zone is a place that many people spend their entire lives trying to establish and inhabit. They design their comfort zones around material items,...
A comfort zone is a place that many people spend their entire lives trying to establish and inhabit. They design their comfort zones around material items, décor, foods, and people—and once a comfort zone is completed, almost no one ever wants to leave it. For small-to-medium businesses (SMBs), comfort zones can be deadly. The 500+ members of the Oxford Center for Entrepreneurs, an organization that helps business owners grow their companies at accelerated rates, are not...
A comfort zone is a place that many people spend their entire lives trying to establish and inhabit. They design their comfort zones around material items, décor, foods, and people—and once a...
Expansion will be the focal point for America’s fastest-growing companies (as represented by the Inc. 5000) in 2018. This includes: expanding sales, hiring more...
Expansion will be the focal point for America’s fastest-growing companies (as represented by the Inc. 5000) in 2018. This includes: expanding sales, hiring more employees, growing market share, and entering new geographies. As you may know, Inc. Media and Oracle partnered last year to get into the heads of the leaders of these high-growth companies. The results were thought-provoking; 2017 was the year of “talent and tech.” Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) were looking for...
Expansion will be the focal point for America’s fastest-growing companies (as represented by the Inc. 5000) in 2018. This includes: expanding sales, hiring more employees, growing market share,...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle Technology has made it possible for companies in virtually every industry to operate with...
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle Technology has made it possible for companies in virtually every industry to operate with greater speed and efficiency at every stage of the business cycle, from product design to supply-chain management, finance, sales, customer marketing and distribution. Yet, remarkably, many companies continue to rely on old-school systems and processes for what is arguably the basis of successful business growth: planning....
By Jennifer Toomey, Senior Director, Cloud Business Group, Oracle Technology has made it possible for companies in virtually every industry to operate with greater speed and efficiency at every stage...
In a recent SMB Group study, 57 percent of small-to-medium business (SMB) leaders, with revenues of $50 million to $1 billion, stated they think their revenues...
In a recent SMB Group study, 57 percent of small-to-medium business (SMB) leaders, with revenues of $50 million to $1 billion, stated they think their revenues will increase in the next 12 months.1 Furthermore, 76 percent believe that digital technologies are ‘reshaping’ their industry. From these stats, we can see that growing businesses understand the impact of digital technologies on their success. Yet, only 23 percent of SMB leaders ‘strongly agree’ that their company...
In a recent SMB Group study, 57 percent of small-to-medium business (SMB) leaders, with revenues of $50 million to $1 billion, stated they think their revenues will increase in the next 12...
By Prasuj Loganathan, Solution Engineering Leader for Startups and Growing Enterprises, Oracle Corporation Think Oracle and small, high-growth companies have...
By Prasuj Loganathan, Solution Engineering Leader for Startups and Growing Enterprises, Oracle Corporation Think Oracle and small, high-growth companies have nothing in common? You’d be surprised. Here, at Oracle, we’re gearing up to soak in the energy and innovation coming out of this year’s DIG SOUTH Tech Conference in Charleston, South Carolina on April 25-27. For the uninitiated, conference organizers bill DIG SOUTH as the event that “connects leading global brands to the...
By Prasuj Loganathan, Solution Engineering Leader for Startups and Growing Enterprises, Oracle Corporation Think Oracle and small, high-growth companies have nothing in common? You’d be...
Startup Toonimo launched its audio-visual “guidance platform” in 2013, with the promise of making it easier for consumers to complete complex tasks on websites...
Startup Toonimo launched its audio-visual “guidance platform” in 2013, with the promise of making it easier for consumers to complete complex tasks on websites without human assistance. Early adopters included small and midsize insurance companies and banks that lacked the support staff to guide their customers through complex policies, claim forms, and credit applications. But Toonimo struggled to attract large enterprise customers—a segment essential to its long-term...
Startup Toonimo launched its audio-visual “guidance platform” in 2013, with the promise of making it easier for consumers to complete complex tasks on websites without human assistance. Early adopters...
Many people start businesses because they have a great idea, and they hope that great idea will take off and (maybe, just maybe) make them some money. However,...
Many people start businesses because they have a great idea, and they hope that great idea will take off and (maybe, just maybe) make them some money. However, (and we have all heard this statistic before) 70 percent of all businesses fail within 10 years. But this is not the interesting part of the statistic. There is more. Four-fifths (80 percent) of new companies survive their first year Two-thirds (66 percent) survive their second year About one-half (50 percent) survive...
Many people start businesses because they have a great idea, and they hope that great idea will take off and (maybe, just maybe) make them some money. However, (and we have all heard this statistic...
Even though parts of the northern hemisphere are still covered in snow and apparently missed the memo noting the official arrival of spring, the season of...
Even though parts of the northern hemisphere are still covered in snow and apparently missed the memo noting the official arrival of spring, the season of renewal arrived last week. From secular and scientific to pagan and religious celebrations and observations, there are a plethora of words and phrases that highlight the equinox. Personally, my favorite word for spring is renaissance. Connecting this season with the concept of renaissance is particularly powerful for...
Even though parts of the northern hemisphere are still covered in snow and apparently missed the memo noting the official arrival of spring, the season of renewal arrived last week. From secular...
