Using Your Business Plans

Business plans come in several flavors and you will need each of them to successfully raise money. I’ll briefly describe the forms of your business plan, but more importantly, explain how to avoid common mistakes in using your plans.

VMware Envisions Virtualization in Post-PC, BYOD Era

Late last year, VMware launched a new bring your own device (BYOD) plan under which every one of its 6,000 U.S. employees was required to use his or her personal mobile phones for work. The mandate was more than a cost-saving measure. VMware appears serious about establishing itself as a leader in post-PC era enterprise computing, and getting intimate with the benefits and challenges of BYOD is ...

Students win Gillespie award for Xbox video game

  When three Ole Miss students sat down in their apartment this summer and decided to create a video game, none of them expected they would win thousands of dollars from it. Jonathan Boom, Lee Dubose and Ryan Rigney entered the 2012 Gillespie Business Plan Competition through the Ole Miss School of Business, and on Friday they were awarded first place. “I walked into my friends’ apartment and ...

The 1 Percent Solution

Seattle—Nick Hanauer toddled through his early years in a cramped Greenwich Village apartment. His mother waited tables at the Bitter End. His father worked low-level jobs on Wall Street and as an editor at a publishing house. When Nick was 5, his folks left New York to join a family pillow-making business in the Pacific Northwest. They raised their three sons in a three-bedroom house in the ...

Sandals Resorts International Optimizes Profitably with Big Data

"Data tells an important story, you just have to know how to present it." This business insight comes from Ms. Joanne Pearson, Director of Corporate Reporting for Sandals Resorts International. Sandals operates a total of 22 luxury resorts carrying the Sandals, Beaches and Grand Pineapple brands and employs 10,000 people. She is also crystal clear when it comes to managing by the numbers, "The ...