In this series, I’ll use four examples from 2002 to 2007 to illustrate the unique high-impact role a small professional business development function can play.  It was the spring of 2002, a miserable time to be a startup cloud computing company, or managed service provider as we were known back then.  A: That’s easy—Engineering! MORE >>

at 11:40) “[In 2002,] nobody would fund consumer … Meanwhile, I was raising money for one-and-a-half years unsuccessfully, sleeping on couches; I had to set-up a set of rules for myself how long I would freeload off any one individual.” The product was basically this junk heap of bad design that persisted for many, many years.” MORE >>

The experience will be designed to engage the visitors in learning, exploration, and dialogue related to entrepreneurship, with a focus on business growth. Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners (1997, 2002, and 2007) with extrapolations into 2011 based on Gross Domestic Product. . In addition to the U.S. MORE >>

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.) and China.  MORE >>

” —Director of IT, Fidelity Investments (circa 2002). We paid up for the best graphic designers for the website, business cards, and the sales collateral. At great debate from our board, we hired IDEO  to design a thick, aluminum faceplate and backplate with our branding. We were so good, but yet so puny. We felt big. MORE >>