Free Ebook Teaches You to Ace Every Presentation
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You already know how to punch up your PowerPoint slide decks, but what about punching up yourself? Do you have the skills to really inspire your audience, to make your presentation not only valuable but memorable? Most importantly, can you use it to close the deal?There’s an ebook for that. In Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, presentation consultant Jerry Weissman teaches you to move beyond the slide deck and really engage with your audience.The book normally sells for $26.99, but for a limited time, Amazon is offering the Kindle edition free of charge. (How limited? I’m not sure, but these freebies rarely last more than a few days. If you’re interested in this title, grab i[...]
Continue ReadingAnother Exec Departure At Nokia: Corp Relations EVP Esko Aho Is Going To Harvard
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Nokia today announced it is losing another senior executive: Esko Aho, who had once been the prime minister of Finland and is currently EVP, corporate relations and responsibility and a member of Nokia’s leadership team, is leaving the beleaguered handset maker for Harvard University. There, he will be the Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School for public policy. He had been with Nokia since 2008 and a member of the executive team since 2009.In his role at Nokia, Aho had overseen the company’s global policies and activities regarding sustainable development and social responsibility. Although his departure may not appear[...]
Continue ReadingFive Stars Hits 1.3 Million Check-Ins, Emerging As A Quiet Giant In Customer Loyalty
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We in the press haven’t heard too much from Five Stars, the customer loyalty startup, since it launched out of the Winter 2011 class of Y Combinator last year. But now that seems the silence has been for a pretty good cause: Turns out that Five Stars has been busy over the past year building a business with real clients, real users, and most importantly, real revenue[...]
Continue ReadingStruggling publisher THQ names game veteran Jason Rubin as president
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Jason Rubin, the co-founder of famous game developer Naughty Dog, has been named the president of struggling video game publisher THQ.
Rubin will report to Brian Farrell, who remains chairman and chief executive. But Danny Bilson, who has headed THQ’s creative efforts in recent years, is resigning his post as executive vice president to pursue other interests.
THQ is one of the largest publicly traded video game publishers in the U.S., but it has been troubled by a dearth of hits, a shift in gamer tastes, and an ill-advised bet on a drawing tablet during the last holiday season.
It remains to be seen whether the appointment will be enough to lift the company’s stock price. THQ ne[...]
Continue ReadingRubin will report to Brian Farrell, who remains chairman and chief executive. But Danny Bilson, who has headed THQ’s creative efforts in recent years, is resigning his post as executive vice president to pursue other interests.
THQ is one of the largest publicly traded video game publishers in the U.S., but it has been troubled by a dearth of hits, a shift in gamer tastes, and an ill-advised bet on a drawing tablet during the last holiday season.
It remains to be seen whether the appointment will be enough to lift the company’s stock price. THQ ne[...]
Facebook investor Jim Breyer gets $100M in IPO, but is overstretched
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Only a dozen or so really big names have led the venture capital industry consistently over the past decade. Jim Breyer of Accel Partners is one of them.
This weekend, Breyer, who sits on Facebook’s board, was the subject of a sharply written piece by New York Times finance writer Gretchen Morgenson. She documents how four of the five public companies where Breyer serves on the board are experiencing “high-profile problems.” The four problem companies are Facebook, Dell, Walmart, and News Corp (the fifth, non-problem company, is Brightcove).
In the case of Facebook, the company is now facing a string of lawsuits from irate investors who claim Facebook misled them about its financ[...]
Continue ReadingThis weekend, Breyer, who sits on Facebook’s board, was the subject of a sharply written piece by New York Times finance writer Gretchen Morgenson. She documents how four of the five public companies where Breyer serves on the board are experiencing “high-profile problems.” The four problem companies are Facebook, Dell, Walmart, and News Corp (the fifth, non-problem company, is Brightcove).
In the case of Facebook, the company is now facing a string of lawsuits from irate investors who claim Facebook misled them about its financ[...]
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