A leading mind in business growth for 30 years in Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalist, and Author Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D.

Aligning the Dots: The new paradigm to grow any business

Publisher: Onward Business Press Author Website: https://philippebouissou.com/

It’s eight o’clock Monday morning. What do you do to outpace the market and grow faster than your competitors? Aligning the Dots provides a clear answer to that deceptively simple question.

Although many how-to-grow business books have been published, none offer a pragmatic and reliable blueprint for top-line growth that is built on deep data analysis and a universal framework that leads to revealing insights. Without a clear roadmap to growth, a CEO’s demands for innovative product development, better marketing, and increased customer acquisition and conversion often fail to produce desired outcomes. An effective leader understands that without clear direction and guidance, teams will revert to business as usual and no amount of inspirational taglines will help the business grow faster.

Aligning the Dots introduces a new paradigm. It’s a universal, data-driven and prescriptive methodology, called A4 Precision Alignment, designed to accelerate any business. Based on the profound insight that the maximum top-line growth rate can only be achieved when a business and its target market are perfectly aligned, this methodology reveals how quantitative measurements of alignment form the base for the development a Growth Playbook.

That blueprint will guide any business to align the dots to outperform its target market and fly past its competitors.

In an interview on your program Dr. Philippe Bouissou can discuss:

1. There are 11,000 business books published every year. Why should we talk about your Book?

2. What results does this new paradigm to grow any business deliver?

3. Why did you choose to focus on the topic of growth?

4. What is unique about Aligning the Dots?

5. What are the traditional methods to grow a business?

6. Why do these traditional ways of growing a business rarely work?

7. What is counterintuitive about your new paradigm?

8. What is surprising about it?

9. How does it provoke new thoughts or bring “conventional wisdom” into question?

10. How did you come up with this new idea?

11. What in your background was critical to invent this new paradigm?

12. Does this new methodology apply to any business?

13. Can you give an example of a bad and a good alignment?

14. Who is the audience for this book?

15. How does the COVID19 pandemic affect the teachings in this system?

Aligning the Dots offers a new systematic methodology for optimizing resource allocation towards long-

term profitable growth. Philippe Bouissou’s engaging style uses a combination of personal anecdotes,

scientific analogies, and relevant case studies to convey his message of alignment. While the target

audience cuts across the broad business community, I find the methodology to be most directly relevant

to young technology startups who have a very low margin for error in their business model.

—Eric Benhamou Founder and General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures and Former Chairman and CEO of 3Com

Every executive intuitively knows the importance of aligning what a company sells with what its customers

want, but few executives actually know how to do it right. In his smart, new book—Aligning the Dots—

business growth expert Philippe Bouissou presents a simple, but powerful framework for building

alignment along four critical business axes. No matter what size your business or what industry you’re in,

Aligning the Dots is the playbook you need to spark revenue growth right now — and well into the future.

—Peter Economy The Leadership Guy, Inc. Magazine

Aligning the Dots offers a precise, logical way to understand how the fundamental drivers of business

work, and how to align your company with them for long-term success. It’s the rare book that combines a

comprehensive science of how business works with dozens of practical tips that any leader can apply.

—Chris Yeh Co-author with Reid Hoffman of Blitzscaling

I’ve seen so many businesses struggle as the vision and expectations of entrepreneurs and company operators

are out of sync with the customer or the marketplace. Aligning the Dots provides an articulate, pragmatic,

and innovative framework for solving these misalignments. It is a resource that can and should be

referenced repeatedly to help pressure test strategy and plans for the competitive edge that derives from precision alignment.

—Lori Bush Former President and CEO, Rodan + Fields

Genius often creates out-of-the-box thinking. Aligning the Dots makes you think differently and that makes

it powerful. Any business should understand and use these concepts.

—Nolan Bushnell CEO of X2 Games Founder and former CEO of Atari and Chuck E Cheese!

Category: Business

Publisher: Onward Business Press

Page count: 240 (full-color)

ISBN: 9781734208702

Price: $27.95

Formats: Hardcover, e-book

About the Author:

Philippe Bouissou, Ph.D. has spent three decades in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, a CEO, a venture capitalist, and a management consultant. He is Managing Partner at Blue Dots Partners LLC, a firm he co-founded focused on top-line acceleration. He started his career as the founder and CEO of G2i, Inc. a Unix software company that was acquired by Matra. He then was Senior Vice President at Matra Hachette Multimedia, Inc., where he led US business development for electronic publishing for the $12 billion, high-tech and diversified media company before joining Apple as Director of the Worldwide Internet Commerce Group, where he founded and managed the online Apple Store and grew its revenue from zero to $350 million.

After Apple, Bouissou became a venture capitalist and successfully invested $43 million and generated double-digit cash-on-cash IRR. For over half a decade, Bouissou co-managed the Milestone Group, a management consulting firm serving over 220 clients. During his career, Bouissou led over 120 management-consulting projects with companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, SAP, and Verisign and served on the board of directors of 20 companies, including ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) Silicon Valley, where he currently serves.

Bouissou graduated from École Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Physics, and a Ph.D. in non-linear physics and chaos theory.

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Listen to “Cristal Glangchai, Whats keeping girls out of STEM? Why?” on Spreaker.

Girls at a very young age are curious about science and math—about 74% of kindergarten girls want to go into STEM—but by the time they reach middle school, only 15-20% remain interested.

Scientist, author, and professor Cristal Glangchai, PhD, attributes this to the way educators, parents, and the media talk to girls about pursuing STEM careers. She argues that a key part of raising strong, confident young women is giving them the tools of entrepreneurship to engage in STEM.

Glangchai’s new book, VentureGirls: Raising Girls to be Tomorrow’s Leaders (HarperCollins; May 2018) explains what has kept young girls out of STEM fields, as well as the practical applications of STEM learning, and how we can address the gender imbalance therein.

Dr. Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of VentureLab, a nonprofit that empowers kids, especially girls, with an entrepreneurial mind-set. VentureGirls.

Dr. Glangchai can discuss or write about the following:

• Women and STEM: How, as of now, women make up only 29% of the science and engineering workforce. Dr. Glangchai can share her fundamentals for empowering young girls in STEM.

• How STEM Education Impacts Entrepreneurship: Dr. Glangchai explains how science teaches kids about failure, and why learning to embrace failure is the key to entrepreneurial success.

• Creating Young Entrepreneurs: 65% of kids will have jobs that we cannot even imagine today. How parents can and should encourage kids as young as 5 years old to embrace their innovativeness and entrepreneurial mindset.

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NEW FUNDINGS
Full Truck Alliance Group, China’s biggest app for Uber-like truck services, reportedly raised $1.9 billion in funding to fuel its expansion at a valuation of $6.5 billion with backers including SoftBank Vision Fund, China Reform Fund, GSR Ventures and Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG. Existing investors Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Sequoia Capital also were involved in the round.
Keep on truckin.

Chinese biotech startup NuProbe has bagged $11 million in a Series A round co-led by Sequoia Capital China and hedge fund Serica Partners, plus corporate strategic investor WuXi AppTec.

Silicon chipmaker Innovium raised $77 million in a Series D funding from veteran chip investor Walden International.

Want to know how competitive the cryptocurrency market is for venture capital funding? Consider that Sequoia China sued the founder of crypto trading exchange Binance for failing to honor an exclusivity agreement during negotiations, and sought an injunction against the founder, well-known as CZ, from negotiating with other investors. Sequoia had offered Binance a term sheet for a $9.5 million, Series A investment for a 12% stake in Binance. A Hong Kong court recently struck down the injunction.

IPOs
Chinese ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing is preparing for an IPO as early as this year at a valuation of $70 billion to $80 billion, up from its most recent venture funding valuation of $57.6 billion. Didi could beat Uber to the public markets.

NOTEWORTHY
Image recognition has caught on in China in a big way. Beijing airport security checks scan your passport and face at the same time before sliding your luggage through. And parking garages are scanning license plates on cars to whisk drivers through the toll gate. No more reaching for paper tickets out the car window.

Anyone that believes that Apple will discontinue the iPhone X or that iPhone sales are down has not been to China. If anything Apple will make an X+ and make it bigger and more expensive. iPhone shipments to China were up 32% in Q1 2018, and Apple’s share of the Chinese smartphone market rose to 14.3% from 10% a year ago.

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Top Trends and Topics at OnMedia NYC 2014
The Venture Capital Outlook for 2014
The Monetization of Mobile
The Social Commerce Boom
Making Money in Online Video
The Freemium Model in Action
The Ad Network Horserace Continues
Online Fashion Arrives
Boosting Business via Strategic Partnerships
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OnMedia NYC 2013 is a two-day executive summit where Silicon Valley meets Madison Avenue, featuring New York’s power players and top digital media CEOs, who will engage in high-level debates on how the Internet is disrupting the world of media, marketing, advertising and branding. OnMedia also showcases the emerging entrepreneurial CEOs who are revolutionizing the way media is being created, distributed, consumed and analyzed. Who attends OnMedia? Founders, CEOs, inventors, C-level executives of emerging private companies from seed and startup to late-stage, and pre-public Investors and angels in addition to business press and influential bloggers.

• Amish Jani, Founder & Managing Director, FirstMark Capital
• Andrew Siegel, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development, Advance Publications
• Are Traasdahl, Founder & CEO, Tapad
• Aslaug Magnúsdóttir, CEO & Co-Founder, Moda Operandi
• Babak Yaghmaie, Partner, Cooley LLP
• Ben Wolin, CEO, Everyday Health, Inc.
• Brian Hughes, Co-Head, US Venture Practice and Partner, KPMG
• Brian Stengel, Managing Director, Waller Capital
• Bruce Taragin, Managing Director, Blumberg Capital
• Carl Fremont, Executive Vice President, Global Media Director, DIGITAS
• Chantel Waterbury, Founder & CEO, Chloe + Isabel
• Chase McMichael, CEO, Infinigraph
• Chris Kobran, VP Brands & Strategic Partnerships, Kiip
• Chris Scoggins, Senior Vice President & General Manager, DLX Platform, Datalogix
• Cory Booker, Mayor, City of Newark, Co-Founder, #waywire
• Daniel Burstein, Co-Founder, Millennium Technology Value Partners
• Dick Sweeney, Senior Vice President, Northeast Market Manager, Bridge Bank
• Don Dodge, Developer Advocate, Google
• Dr. Hagen Wenzek, Global Chief Technology Officer, IPG Mediabrands
• Eric Mathewson, Founder & CEO, WideOrbit
• Evangelos Simoudis, Senior Managing Director, Trident Capital
• Habib Kairouz, Managing Partner, Rho Ventures
• Howard Morgan, Partner, First Round Capital
• Ian Sigalow, Partner, Greycroft
• Jacque Bibeau, Founder, Touchstorm Media
• Jay MacDonald, CEO & Managing Director, Digital Capital Advisors, LLP
• Jay Samit, President, ooVoo
• Jeff Tinsley, CEO, MyLife.com
• Jill Labert, Executive Vice President of Partnerships, Kargo
• John Caplan, Founder & CEO, OpenSky
• John Gardner, Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
• Katrina Lake, CEO, Stitch Fix
• Keval Desai, Partner, Interwest
• Liza Boyd, Managing Director, Highbridge Principal Strategies, LLC
• Lynley Sides, CEO, The Glue Network
• Manish Chandra, Founder & CEO, Poshmark
• Mark Healy, CEO, Instant Autographs
• Mark Zagorski, CEO, eXelate
• Michael Moe, CEO, GSV Capital
• Nathan Richardson, CEO, #waywire
• Noah Goodhart, Founder, Moat
• Paul Asel, Managing Partner, Nokia Growth Partners
• Paul Gibson, Senior Vice President, Eastern Region Market Manager, Bridge Bank
• Ragnar Kruse, CEO, Smaato
• Ramsey McGrory, CEO, AddThis
• Ray Kingman, CEO, Semcasting
• Rich Langdale, Managing Partner, NCT Ventures
• Robert Darwell, Partner, Sheppard Mullin
• Sanjay Manandhar, CEO, Aerva
• Scott Levine, Managing Director, Time Warner Investments
• Shafqat Islam, Co-Founder & CEO, NewsCred
• Simon Khalaf, CEO, Flurry
• Skip Brand, CEO, Martini Media
• Tim Chang, Managing Director, Mayfield Fund
• Tim Walsh, Lead Venture Capital Partner, New York City, KPMG LLP
• Tom Dibble, CEO, Aria Systems
• Tommaso Trionfi, CEO, Merchantry
• Victor Boyajian, Partner, SNR Denton
• Warren Lee, General Partner, Canaan Capital
• Will Seippel, CEO, Worthpoint
• Wilson Kriegel, President & COO, Paltalk

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Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, Former CEO of AOL Time Warner.

In 2011, Steve Case was selected by President Obama to serve as Chairman of the Startup America Partnership, a group that supports young entrepreneurial startup companies. Listen as Steve, a well-seasoned entrepreneur, discusses the importance of entrepreneurship in our economy, the impact of government policy in a fireside chat.

The event was held on November 7th & 8th at the Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia, and the Crystal Tea Room.  IMPACT 2012 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic! We have teamed up with PACT to host this event on November 7th – 8th at The Ritz Carlton, Philadelphia, PA.

PACTs’ annual venture conference, IMPACT 2012 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, is the most established venture conference in the northeast. For over 20 years, IMPACT has been showcasing the best and most promising investment opportunities in the Technology, Life Sciences and Clean Technology sectors. IMPACT’s Featured Companies have raised more than $1 billion in venture financing and are some of the region’s most recognizable names. Hosted by Ernst & Young, IMPACT 2012 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic will be an event not to miss!

We are accepting new ideas and speakers and will keep you posted on the event program.

Attendees like you are a key reason why AlwaysOn has become the premier brand covering top trends and break-out companies in these sectors. Whether you are looking for new investments, strategic partners, or clients, IMPACT 2012 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic is unparalleled in the power of its program and audience.

Purchase your ticket to IMPACT 2012 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic!

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