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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

YoungUpstarts

Just one floor below him, one of Mike’s managers, Rambling Roger, started running a different racket. This manager wasn’t one of Mike’s political buddies. His operational leaders turned blind eyes to cost overruns. Mike sharpened his corporate gaming skills as he flipped the switch on his region to autopilot.

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Small business tips: mobile technology, the iPad, and your business

crowdSPRING Blog

The iPads contained engineering data from the 1999 restoration of the monument. This is just one example of how businesses are embracing mobile technology. Car dealers are adopting the technology and issuing iPads to their sales staff to help them to stay with the customer from the moment one walks onto the showroom floor.

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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

Both Sides of the Table

I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. He was to head up UK operations. We hired a head of technology, a head of customer service, a head of marketing, a head of strategy (which no startup should ever hire) a CFO and, ugh, 33 developers. We raised just $500k.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

Demonstrate your team’s unique unfair competitive advantage, whether it is technology, stellar management team, or key partnerships. This gives the assurance that if management executes well, the company has substantial profit and liquidity potential. The operations plan transforms the business plan from concept into reality.

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. DeBenedetto has spent the past two decades passionately helping business owners navigate the complex world of technology. Frank enjoys spending quality time away from technology with his family and close group of friends.

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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

When it launched in 97 it was a DVD rental business whose only real value proposition was the mail-order element of its operation. The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. That moment is now. Enter the Developers.

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