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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. Think of it from the customer's perspective – Why should this customer shop from your store instead of the other stores selling this product?

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Quick Left: An unlikely CEO leads this app development house that’s “a bit like therapy”

The Next Web

In fact, she’s so unlikely to talk about herself or her company that, while sitting with her for dinner during Big Omaha, the subject of Quick Left came up (not from her, mind you) and I said that I really needed to talk to someone from there to find out their story. Alongi likes to think of the company as sort of a therapist.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

05:00 PM: Eight Ways to Deal with Bastards – If 99% of your customers are fantastic, you’re still going to deal with bastards. Threadless, 37Signals, FeedBurner, BIG Omaha conference, and SXSW itself are proof that technology life exists away from the coasts. And even the best of us make bad hiring decisions.

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5 Biggest Mistakes in Healthcare Staffing by Susanne Mariga, CPA

Mike Michalowicz

PK Scheerle, CEO of Gifted Healthcare, warns that sometimes, new healthcare staffing firms in an eagerness for growth and customers, against their better judgement trade hours for low margin sales. PK says offer your firm up as the firm of quality and convenience letting customers know that you have 4 nurses ready to go.

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[Review] Building A Small Business That Warren Buffett Would Love

YoungUpstarts

After all, he’s not called the Oracle of Omaha for nothing when it comes to investing in companies, so if you’re able to build a business that attracts his attention, you’re probably – and we mean that in the most understated way – on to something. With Healthy Net and Gross Margins.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

SAP Global Trade Services, SAP R/3, Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel ABC has created a custom application server using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server called ABC Unified Strategic Information Optimization Network, or FUSION. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

Maybe the CEO got his cousin from Omaha to be their lawyer or theres been some serious messing around with the cap table. Startups require resourcefulness and a rolodex of enterprise customers isnt enough. A Billion Outstanding Shares Most startups should have fewer than 50 million shares outstanding. Well, its not a joke.