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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. I learned to avoid unnecessary conferences, avoid non-essential costs and strive for at least a neutral EBITDA if for no other reason than nobody was interested in giving us any more money.

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Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?

YoungUpstarts

This means we’ve reached a divergent road in the history of information management — one which splits inevitably at the solutions organizations use to solve the problems that paper and unchecked digitization have caused. Think your organization is too small to suffer a business injuring breach, fraud incident, or information compromise?

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Back To Basics: Document Management Best Practices

YoungUpstarts

Finding effective solutions for managing business data is one of the biggest obstacles businesses encounter in reducing costs, improving service, increasing productivity, and meeting regulatory requirements. Here are some tips to better manage your documents: 1. Managing Unstructured Data. Consistent Folder Structures.

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Understanding How New Enterprise Software Is Licensed And Deployed

YoungUpstarts

Hosted software deployment typically means the software vendor provides or manages the server infrastructure and operating system/database and the users access the enterprise software via the Internet. Wayne has lead WorkWise since 2001 and has been a leader in the enterprise systems space for over 20 years.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Both Sides of the Table

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. The result?

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How A Document Management System Brings Better Talent To Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Document management software (DMS) makes it easy for employees to access the information and records they need in order to do their jobs, regardless of whether they’re in the office or not. Document management software can save your business thousands of dollars every year in wasted employee time, supply costs, etc.