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8 Ways The Stakes Are Higher On Customer Expectations

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology must improve the customer experience. Witness the series of airlines public relations disasters , when customers don’t get the proactive attention they need. The best companies do their homework and find the right customers, based on demographics, prior purchases, and expressed interests.

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Customer Service Can Kill Your Customer’s Experience

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology must improve the customer experience. Witness the series of airlines public relations disasters , when customers don’t get the proactive attention they need. The best companies do their homework and find the right customers, based on demographics, prior purchases, and expressed interests.

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

The Startup Magazine

High regulation in the post-industrial economy added to the public health system complexity. In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. First, from a public relations standpoint, leaders can assure constituents that “the hospital has not permanently been sold.”

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Twitter Link Roundup #27 – Design, Writing, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2) - [link]. Immigrants founded 7000 tech co’s from 1995-2006 – [link]. Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2) - [link]. How Do You Reference Check a VC? Ask Eric Clapton - [link]. Getting Funded: An Interview with Graphic.ly

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. Image Credit: Travis Good. Thanks to Collin J.

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