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5 Things Businesses Should Do Now To Ensure 2015 Success

YoungUpstarts

With the end of the 2015 fiscal year nearing, businesses may be reviewing their consolidated revenues and thinking of ways they can increase their profit margin as they enter the new fiscal year or second-half of the calendar year. Give back to the community. A large portion of a company’s revenues can be wasted on unneeded expenses.

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

Increase current conversion rate by 25%, quantify how much increased revenue there will be. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Yes, from 1995! Significantly higher revenue awaits.

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13 Important Branding Lessons From The Top 4 e-Commerce Giants

YoungUpstarts

Together, they brought in total revenues of over $275 billion in 2018. The online classified site’s interface has remained mostly unchanged since it debuted in 1995. No one could call Craigslist a beautifully designed website – even in 1995. It also communicates that you’re a member of the Apple community.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. None of this has gone unnoticed by the venture community.

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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

Super-angel investors are a new category of investors (like Mike Maples Jr. ), closer to venture capitalists, who are perceived to be more sophisticated, insightful, or well-connected in the startup community, particularly with respect to technology companies in Silicon Valley and other technology centers (also called micro-VCs).

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. The most common way for a public hospital to become part of a larger health system (whether community nonprofit, faith based, or for-profit) is by using a lease structure, rather than an outright sale of stock or assets.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on the venture community. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. Their strategies for their startups differ – some focus on revenue, others build large networks of users.

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