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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. Launching a recipe website can cost as little as $150 if you can utilize your phone as a camera to start. Faced with rising costs, many businesses have a difficult time growing.

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Can Subscription Billing Programs Save Retail Stores?

YoungUpstarts

2017 was capped by the announced bankruptcy of Toys “R” Us, a once formidable retail giant. In all, there were 662 bankruptcy filings in retail last year, according to data cited by CNNMoney. What they keep is paid for, and the other items can be returned at no cost. That amounts to a 30 percent year-over-year rise.

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How Startups Can Beat Seasonality

YoungUpstarts

Run of the mill startups accept seasonal drag without a plan while the ones that eventually grow significantly larger do not accept profit swings or revenue losses as part of their company’s reality. Here’s how to change your business model in order to mitigate or leverage seasonal demand: Level out revenues. Complementary Products.

Startup 100
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Adapt and Grow: Why Manufacturers Need To Embrace Industry 4.0

YoungUpstarts

For manufacturers, this means having the capability to establish fully connected and digitized supply chains where product development, marketing, production, and distribution are all fully connected, thus increasing efficiency and output. Donald Chan is the founder and Business Director at IMPACT!

Agile 100
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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars.

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You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely!

Occam's Razor

Most content sites are currently monetized using display advertising, most commonly on a Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) basis. Revenue vs. Economic Value. That is a reflection of a deep obsession on Revenue. When your KPI is revenue, you are focused on trying to get as many single-session conversions as possible.

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