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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically.

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Tips for Marketing Your Restaurant to Different Generations

Women Entrepreneurs Can

As a restaurant, you want your customers to walk through your door once only to want to keep coming back. Though every customer is different, there are ways to use generational marketing to appeal to specific demographics. Here are a few tips for marketing your restaurant to different generations, in order of oldest to youngest.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Brad on blogging.

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Startup Stock Options – Why A Good Deal Has Gone Bad

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

He taught me, amongst other things, the benefit of “ top down thinking &# that changed the way I analyzed markets, companies and people. We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. See, Mark, in a booming market you can never tell the winners from the losers.

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[Asia] Getting Cloud Computing Right The First Time

YoungUpstarts

by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign. During the Forum, Cloud Computing was highlighted as the number one technology priority for companies in 2012. This adds further momentum to their business transformation, potentially changing the dynamics of relationships among IT vendors, partners and their end-user customers.

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Where There’s A Trend, There’s A Profitable Business

The Startup Magazine

The first method is to launch a timeless product or service that can be customized according to any fad. Identify a timeless product that can be customized to reflect any fad. They always want to be part of the latest and greatest, whether it’s fashion or tech gadgets. By 1996, he had sold $280 million in toys.