I’m delighted that the latest version of LivePlan now includes what we’re calling the Scoreboard, meaning the best-yet positive step on the way to what business planning is really supposed to be, today, which is a tool for managing a company. This step is classically simple: two visuals only, one for sales and the other [...]
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January of 1995. Few people knew of the Internet, Mozilla, and the world-wide web. The so-called “Internet” had existed for years, but seemed to the rest of us (anybody outside of a few spook havens and ivory towers) like a nerdy background utility for emails. And I started bplans.com. I hope you’ve noticed big changes [...]
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As the song goes, it’s not easy being green. Well, it’s not easy being the Technical Support guy either. While the rest of us in the Marketing and Customer Service departments tend to get a lot of the fun sides of talking to our customers, that isn’t always the case with Tech Support. So imagine [...]
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Having just completed my spring business plan season — three big business plan contests and our angel group investment — I think it’s a good time to poke some holes in several damaging and far-too-common myths about startups.
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Along with effectively creating a branding campaign for the industry and lifestyle of the target audience, companies and organizations oftentimes choose to add a tagline, or motto to describe or create a feeling surrounding their product. Almost anyone can come up with several of these off the top of their head. From “I’m lovin’ it” [...]
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The 3rd annual Global Entrepreneurship Week at UnleashingIdeas.org is ending today. Palo Alto Software was pleased to participate once again in this event. As in years past, we added to the conversation about entrepreneurship by offering some one-on-one time with our President and founder, Tim Berry. On Wednesday, Tim spent an hour going over the [...]
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The BBC World News – Business Daily speaks with Palo Alto Software CEO, Sabrina Parsons about family succession. The conversation touches on the topics of “good and bad nepotism” and the worry that if family-run businesses don’t pass down from parent to child, the outcome for the business can in some cases be quite dire. [...]
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This collection of posts on my unretirement (I think I’m adopting Steve King’s term) came up this week, I guess because of the interview Romy Ribitzky did last week with me and my daughter Sabrina, about how I stepped down from managing the company to focus on blogging, writing, speaking and teaching instead. That was [...]
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The fifth annual Small Business Summit is almost here! The date to remember is March 16th in New York City and Palo Alto Software is once again sponsoring the event. What goes on at the Small Business Summit? I’m super glad you asked! This year the event is focused on Strategies for the New Economy [...]
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Here’s a question I received in an e-mail (edited to hide the sender’s identity): “The major question I have is how you found the courage to pull through when the times were tough? I know that is a very generic question. but it’s what I am going through right now . . . [omitting the author's [...]
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