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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Was there consumer demand? Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. No brainer. Were they ambitious? Did they have the right skills? Would they build a world class team.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

And, this goes well beyond the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The shift in consumer behavior and the intensity of the Scooter demand was undeniable. To follow this demand, some of the best venture capital firms in the world poured billions of dollars into these companies, making their valuations soar incredibly fast.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

Pete Fader, Professor of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, shares why in his book Customer Centricity : Not all customers deserve your company’s best efforts. It’s not always easy to identify instances when your business is at fault compared to times when a customer’s demands are unfair. What should you apologize for?

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Tech Checkup: Cloud Technology Redefining the Dental Industry

The Startup Magazine

The group structure of a DSO also provides the flexibility that this generation demands along with the potential for revenue growth through practice expansion. They’re immersed in it, have high expectations of what they can do with it, and demand the instant access they’ve always gotten from it. Millennial=Digital.

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Start Up and Stay Up – How Small Businesses Survive & Thrive

The Startup Magazine

Since then it has grown to serve the tri-state New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware areas, but I still consider it a small business and my employees, more like a family. Word quickly spread of his high-quality work and demand for his services grew. I started my Philadelphia area home appraising business in 2006.

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Entrepreneurs And Small Businesses Thrive With These 5 Tech Tools

YoungUpstarts

Fundbox leverages Big Data analytics, engineering and predictive modeling to give small businesses credit-on-demand that is accessed through its existing account software so that the point of workflow is never disrupted. Eyal earned his MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Mastering communication with your volunteer board members

Board Effect

Overwhelming volume of communications Board service becomes even more demanding when members are faced with numerous messages coming from multiple streams. Simplify communication channels Simplify communication channels to reduce demands on the board and keep important information front and center.