Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.
You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long)
There's a lot of bad information about TV Azteca in the market, but that's always an opportunity for smart and savvy investors.
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.
We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.
Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
The rise of digital technology put marketers in a bind. No longer a captive audience, consumers were splitting their time across devices, social networks and websites.
The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.
What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.
Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.
Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.
For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.
The world of extreme sports is also one of big business. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.
America used to be a uniquely productive, low-cost place to do business. We had efficient infrastructure. We had limited regulation. We believed in the market.
