US has a long way to go for achieving diverse and equitable representations by women of colors on corporate boards and with venture funding.
Great advice and cutting edge information by Steve Hoffman of Founder Space, Silicon Valley Investor to entrepreneurs and business leaders.
COVID19 can change a company's clientele, products and services, even business model, but not its brand DNA & vision by the founder & CEO.
We give CEOs and founders clarity, vision, greater influence and larger bottomline with our process of branding, rebranding, brand-refreshing. More than higher profits, you brand creates success, culture and legacy. It is the North Star for motivating employees and inspiring customers-turned-into-followers.
The top 5% of star companies focus on building their power brands to turn sales transactions into loyal relationships, buyers into followers, while the 95% businesses just survive by focusing on just the bottom line, nose on the grindstone.
How many types of roofs can you visualize in 6 seconds? Now, STRETCH your imagination, and visualize what comes to your mind when you hear this sentence: “Our vast knowledge in various types of roofing installations is one of our greatest assets.” Perhaps a roof or two come to your visual mind?
A brand lives and breathes. A brand’s survival depends on how it adapts to its natural environment. When the market environment changes, the brand, even though it has been around for more than 100 years, must rapidly adapt, or die. To thrive, rather than just survive, we need to regularly evaluate a brand and the marketing approach for the brand - in relationship to the competitive environment in which it exists and then come up with potent and fresh marketing tactics and brand narratives to promote each brand’s unique value propositions and persona.
Meaning + Emotions = Storytelling. To live is to be part of a story. To live a story, a vision, a dream, marks the difference between “living” and “existing.” For a business, it is the story that’s the difference between “selling products” and “influencing with a brand”. For a customer, that’s difference between being “sold [...]
If you’d like to first read the preceding Part 1, here is the link: (https://10plusbrand.com/2018/10/21/in-machines-we-trust-verifying-authenticity-by-ai-and-blockchain-part-1-of-2/ Who has the final authority to declare truth or falsehood? Who is to judge if a piece of news is fake or real or in-between, for a specific purpose or use by particular humans? In the end, a human [...]
“Information Authenticating Tech” is most desired today A prestigious club in Silicon Valley (Churchill Club) has annual predictions of the top 10 trends in technology. In May 2018, the winner by popular vote of several hundred in the attending audience was the prediction of a new class of software that guarantees authenticity for news, authorship, [...]
