by Marc H. Rudov | December 25, 2015 | Article
It’s rare for a CEO to clock more than a few minutes of an investor pitch without getting the bottom-line question: What makes your enterprise scalable? Investors are so obsessed with scalability that they often overlook what drives it. Scalability is the...
by Marc H. Rudov | December 12, 2015 | Article
A colleague from New York City runs an executive roundtable, through which CEOs meet monthly to discuss their corporate challenges and exchange ideas for resolving them. Their biggest challenge? Joining the roundtable. It takes my colleague almost a year to recruit...
by Marc H. Rudov | August 28, 2015 | Article
When venture capitalists invest in startup companies, they bankroll the founding teams, not their products. It’s about trust. Invariably, the executives will have to cope with, adapt to, and overcome unknowns, wrong assumptions, and marketplace vicissitudes....
by Marc H. Rudov | April 28, 2015 | Article
People are cursed with the infatuation gene. When strong emotions blind them, they inflate the values of cars, homes, tulip bulbs (in 1637 Holland), stocks, other people, and, let’s not forget, technology — resulting in illogical overpayments that they...
by Marc H. Rudov | March 1, 2015 | Article
Silicon Valley is a high-octane, product-centric jungle, where branding (yuck!) is viewed with skepticism and derision. After all, this strip of Northern California isn’t called Solution Valley, is it? Newsflash: people buy solutions (value), not products....
