At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ecommerce industry saw ten years’ growth in just 90 days. As retail stores shut down due to a global lockdown, ecommerce reached an all-time high of 16.4% of total global retail sales.
In 2020 legendary investor Warren Buffet invested in an IPO after more than half a century. He hadn’t invested in an IPO since investing in Ford in 1956, choosing to stay away from them because of all the hype involved.
In today’s fast-paced world of change, being the first to scale, not being the first mover, is what matters. Figuring out the art and science of rapidly building a global business can be pretty challenging, and the decisions you have to take can be as counter-intuitive as it comes.
For the first time in its history, The New York Times’ digital revenue was higher than the money brought in from print subscribers during its September quarter in 2020.
A five-time founder and a two-time CEO David Cancel, knows a thing or two about building and scaling companies.
In the 1985 sci-fi classic ‘Back to the Future,’ Michael J Fox tests out a time machine built by his eccentric scientist friend and accidentally travels 35 years back in time.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”-Sir Winston Churchill.
“A culture is not a set of beliefs; it’s a set of actions.” –Bushido.
In uncertain times like these, business leaders would kill to have predictable revenue. Many of them are still grappling with how to forecast revenue for the next year, which is often the starting point for drawing up annual budgets for the organization. With distributed sales teams, businesses are now relying on their ability to forecast, …
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How do subscriptions make your business resilient during turbulent times?