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The Economics of Automation & You

Start Up Blog

Company must then decide where to distribute cost savings – options include; Increase profit margins. Reinvest funds for growth (New Product / Distribution / Promotion / R &D). The only real question is if we’ll make the investment in ourselves to become what tomorrows market will probably demand.

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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups. Myth #2: All startups are technology companies.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. The revenue, profits and speed of scale of the winning companies can be breathtaking. The New Exits. Wide Adoption. Visibility.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). The product worked.

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Transcript of What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like?

Duct Tape Marketing

Tom Webster: Yeah, it sprung out of a study that we’ve been doing since 1998, called the Infinite Dial. You look at some of the NPRs of the world that are using a significant distribution. So tell me about the series, the study, and I guess a little bit of the methodology, and why you do it and all that good stuff.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

— in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? With the recent wave of on-demand offerings from taxi cabs to mobile dry cleaning, consumers have started to rethink the way they book and buy products and services. The unstable economy demands that you develop entrepreneurial skills.