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Sales Talk for CEOs: How to Become a Trailblazer in a New Market with Amy DuRoss (S2:E9)

Alice Heiman

Personalized medicine—designing custom therapeutics for each patient to cure diseases like cancer—is a whole new terrain in the pharmaceuticals industry. an online consumer mortgage company, and worked with that company through its IPO. So, what’s it like to start and build a company in a brand new category?

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Although it’s not time to Party Like its 1999, There is Plenty to Celebrate

The ROI Guy

IT spending has experienced a healthy three years of budget increases since the beginning of 2004, giving many IT execs plenty of reasons to celebrate. Doing more with Less: IT Efficiency is up Sharply Overall, IT labor or outsourced equivalents consume the majority, 56% of the average IT budget. of revenue in 2004, to only 3.3%