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Working Capital vs. Cash Flow: The Differences and How to Better Manage Them

Up and Running

On the other hand, if you receive a payment of $2000, that’s considered income or revenue, you’ll generate positive cash flow that can be reinvested in other areas. . An important part of any finance management is having access to a lot of positive working capital, as it helps insulate a business against unexpected events.

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8 Management Mistakes Which Will Defeat Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

They know leadership is all about managing their own complicated, illogical, and fallible human foibles, as well as the people they depend on. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. And it may work.

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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To My Career

Hunter Walker

But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed. Pivot to the right with a few years of management consulting and use Powerpoint on cross country flights to make stop motion animations. companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). If you wanted a website, you had to pay someone a lot of money to set it up for you. For us geeks, those were happy times, but the same cannot be said for end users. You would install CMS on your server, select the template and have a site done in an hour.

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

The Next Web

Widely, the blame as to what prompted the nosedive was being laid at the doorsteps of a new long-term growth strategy envisioned by the company’s top management— Infosys 3.0. But our managers didn’t get it. All the way from 1993 to 2000. Eventually, they were moved into positions where they had to ‘manage’ people.”.

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

by Guy Cooper, Managing Director of Wave Digital. The founder, Managing Director or CEO. Guy Cooper is Managing Director of Wave Digital , an Australian app development company founded in 2000. The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. encounters delays.