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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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6 Keys to Attracting Customers Based On Social Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

But these days, it can pay big dividends to go above and beyond to make people happy or benefit society. At every Ritz-Carlton , employees are authorized to spend up to $2,000 per guest to solve a guest issue or improve a guest's stay, no matter what the cause.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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

Steve Blank

Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.) Often the short-term cuts directly affect employee salaries, jobs, and long-term investment in R&D.

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

Tools such as LinkedIn are obviously useful, but it can also pay dividends to use your network to find potential hires. Employees can also be a valuable source of referrals. It doesn’t take long to ask your employees and network, so do it. This is why recruitment is a $429 billion industry.

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