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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. ” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. No Problem!

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From Entrepreneur To Boss: Hiring Your First Employees

The Startup Magazine

This means securing the funding, business premises, building your business presence online and hiring the perfect human resources. For those business owners, a common issue behind their refusal to hire employees, in the beginning, is the difficulty many of them face is finding the right fit for their organization.

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Not a giant outsourcer playing the cost arbitrage game. All the way from 1993 to 2000. As India’s IT sector boomed and so did its companies, these new hires grew too, making IT the hottest career choice at the turn of the century. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. But, as it turned out, the pivot didn’t work.

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Cash Flow Matters: Accounts Receivable Financing Fuels New Model Of Working Capital

YoungUpstarts

There’s a simplicity about it that adds appeal – payment is received and the business stays focused on the project it was hired to handle. This perception, along with what business operators assume to be high costs, until recently kept factoring as a less favored financial option. Working Capital Means Strategic Advantage.

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7 Ways to Terrorize Your Competition

Growthink Blog

One of my favorite movie lines, which I think about often, comes from the 1993 movie Rudy. Studies have shown that it costs up to 7 times as much to acquire a new customer than it does to retain an existing customer. Hire Right As you grow your business, the less "doing" (e.g., Yet, this happens all the time in our businesses.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

No matter what the specific tasks are, clients hire us to spread the word about them, and most of our customers want that done really quickly. When I founded the firm in 1993 management consulting companies tended to use a leverage model (the junior staff did most of the work) and projects were multi-phased often lasting months to years.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. It cost him $4.8B In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time.