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How Oracle Thrived in the 2008 Recession, Even with Missed Revenue Opportunities

SBI Growth

Companies are investing in themselves, growing their businesses, and increasing shareholder value. Now fast forward to 2008. The real estate market is flush. Stocks are booming. Getting a loan has never been easier. The real estate bubble.

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Shareholder vs Stakeholder: What's the Difference?

Hubspot Sales

One of the big questions on that front is, “What's a shareholder versus a stakeholder?” So, to help you get a better sense of what shareholders and stakeholders are and how they differ, I've put together this handy guide. Table of Contents Shareholder vs. Stakeholder What is a shareholder? Here we go.

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How to Set More-Realistic Sales Targets using Historical Data

QYMATIX

Nosbusch took over CEO duties from Don Davis, still chairman of Rockwell Automation, following the company’s annual shareholders meeting. During his tenure at the helm of GE, 2001 to 2017, two unprecedented and unforeseeable crises hit the global markets : 9/11 in 2001 and the global financial crisis in 2008. Rockwell’s sales targets?

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Your B2B Clients – First off – DON’T SELL – HELP, & here’s how!

Maximize Business Marketing

And with 40+ years in B2B, as a sales person, executive, business owner, and sales coach, I have also been through many downturns in my career, including stagflation in the 70’s, 22% interest rates in the early 80’s, the late 80’s recession, Y2K, 9/11, and the recession of 2008/9. So, I have seen and been through a lot.

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How can I mix my own Resilience Cocktail as a leader?

MDI Training

Marilena Maris has been working with leaders and experts, on-site or virtually, in over 30 countries since 2008. She passes on her knowledge in the form of workshops, key notes, international programmes, coaching and training.

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The 5 Stages of Entrepreneurship

Hubspot Sales

Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett founded GitHub in 2008 and funded it for four years. GitHub , an internet hosting service for software development, is an example of a business that scaled fast , thanks to external funding. In 2012, they got their first VC investment of $100 million and raised another $250 million in 2015.