Rakuten's CEO on the Importance of Company CultureMicrosoft CEO expects volumes on Windows Phone to "ramp quickly"TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Windows Phone 8 being launched with its partners would create a strong third player in the smartphone market and sell quickly. "With the work we have done with Nokia wow po, HTC, Samsung and others . there is now an opportunity to create really a strong third participant in the smartphone market," Ballmer said at an event to launch Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system in Israel, referring to Google's Android and Apple's iOS platforms. "We're still relatively small . .If you haven't yet checked out the videos from Y Combinator's Startup School, I encourage you to check them out. Included is a talk by Rakuten's (JSD:4755) CEO Hiroshi Mikitani where he talks about funding his company in the early years, focusing on creating a fun experience for their users. He also speaks a little to the importance of culture in a company's success:You need to have two things: 1) innovation, and 2) operation. It is not so difficult to encourage innovation, but to scale you need a strong operation culture. for this you need shared practices and a kind of framework for management, using more numbers and KPIs. entrepreneurs may not like it, but it think being analytically quantitative is very important.Check out the entire talk via the link below.Yahoo! recommends »Victor Wood loses chance at Senate Wed, Oct 31, 2012 Singer Victor Wood will not be able to run for senate for the second time. More »What the Catholic Church thinks of cremation Wed, Oct 31, 2012 Cremation is no longer prohibited in the Catholic Church. More »How long can justice be served in the Philippines? Wed, Oct 31 Acheter Des PO, 2012 Ethel Brunty has been waiting for three decades now just to get what she has been fighting for: moral damages for the death of her daughter, Rhonda wow gold. More »
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