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How to Handle Competition as a Startup

The Startup Magazine

These systems apply complex algorithms to parse sales data, forecast demand trends, and manage stock levels efficiently. Also, tracking competitors’ digital presence, such as social media trends or ad campaigns, can provide further insights into their strategies. Being adaptable also means welcoming changes.

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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

As a maven of the Macintosh API and still willing to admit it, I landed lots of small contracting jobs fixing up code that other developers wouldn’t touch. These are folks with big requirements — tens of millions of monthly page-views, traffic spikes, custom code, perfect up-time, and 24/7 support.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

ConversionXL

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information”, “long descriptions”, and “reviews & ratings”: Joann Peck & Suzanne B. image source.

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How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors

Up and Running

Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). Moreover, only 13% of these successful campaigns raised over $20k. Your dentist may want to invest in your new software, but she doesn’t know what SaaS is, and Software as a Service doesn’t help her, either.

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Entrepreneurial Essentials – The Foundations Of A Successful Startup

YoungUpstarts

So you have a great business idea, you’ve done your research and due diligence, you know your market and you are good at what you do. One-stop-shop” accounting software. Provide real-time stock and inventory levels. Again this can be managed by implementing a strong accounting software program. What could go wrong?

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5 Reasons Why Your Restaurant or Takeaway Needs an EPOS System (+ How To Choose One)

The Startup Magazine

Having menu items in stock at all times increases customer satisfaction. In addition, by tracking customer preferences, businesses can use behaviors and trends to create targeted marketing campaigns. Consider whether the EPOS system can integrate with your existing systems and software. System integrations.