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5 Reasons Why Start-up Businesses Fail
Excellent article. I would add a couple of key reasons: 1) Poor business model (e.g. poor cash cycle, low margins, etc.) and 2) Lack of really understanding the customer...
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- April 6, 2010
Making Your Web Site Easy
I like this story for three reasons: 1) It lays out the necessity to have your website tested for usability; 2) It provides information on a company that performs that service very effectively; and 3) You get a bit of the story for how the founders came up with the idea and outlines their distinctive value proposition: providing quick, easy, high-quality usability studies for 1/10th to 1/25th of the normal cost...
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- April 6, 2010
How To Spruce Up A Business For Sale
This is a good article with sound wisdom on preparing to sell your business. In my experience you need as much as 2 to 3 years to get everything ship shape and to develop the fact pattern of growth and profitability to make your company really attractive...
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- April 5, 2010
Top 10 Sectors Venture Capital Likes Right Now
Want to score big? Build creative software apps to access the internet from mobile phones. Think of it as a three-bagger because it cuts across three hot sectors...
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- April 2, 2010
Alan Mulally — Making Ford a Model for the Future
With vision, leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit, Mulally is turning around troubled auto maker Ford...
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- April 2, 2010
Apple's iPad: What Every Business Can Learn
This is an excellent article about the need to question the norm or "legacy" assumptions when designing a new product or service. While the iPad itself may not be a hit, the process Apple uses in its new product development process is a very good and very creative process...
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- April 1, 2010
Gaps Seen in Oversight of Organics Industry
Yesterday the warning was about "Natural" products, today the warning is not to trust the "Organic" label due to poor industry oversight...
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- March 31, 2010
World's Youngest iPhone App Developer?
A 14 year-old entrepreneur develops and launches an iPhone app. Read his story here...
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- March 31, 2010
3 Questions Your Business Model Must Answer
This a concise summary of what a "business model" is and what it must include...
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- March 31, 2010
Some "Natural" Products Are Far from It
Unfortunately marketing is often misleading as in the case of "natural" products...
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- March 30, 2010
