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5 Stages In Leading Paradigm Shift Levels Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I still remember when Dean Kamen launched the Segway Human Transporter in 2002, predicting a transportation paradigm shift, and geared up to sell 10,000 per week for the next five years. Constantly validate your solution fit, schedule, and business model with feedback from key customer advocates.

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Jason Vanclef Discusses His Business Model

The Startup Magazine

In 2002, he founded the Vanclef Financial Group, becoming an independent advisor. His businesses success is directly tied to the success of his clients, and he devotes his time and energy toward helping them potentially realize their dreams. How would you describe your business model?

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Neuromarketing Ethics: How Far Is Too Far?

ConversionXL

As the marketing industry developed, researchers dove deeper into buying behavior and buyers’ minds. His “Torches of Freedom” campaign in the 1920s promoted smoking among women as a symbol of liberation, opening a new market to cigarette companies. How far can subliminal marketing go? That’s a major limitation.

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4 Best Business Brokers To Sell A Business

YoungUpstarts

Focusing on larger businesses over the Two Million Dollar revenue mark, their book of business includes thousands of potential buyers and entrepreneurs in states and countries across the globe. Boasting a 91% success rate of all transactions brought to market, Business Exits will help you sell your business of maximum profit.

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Damon Becnel Discusses How The Startup Scene Has Changed Over The Past Decade

The Startup Magazine

Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. An individual can’t be running more than one business at once unless they have permission from all of the other parties involved (which is rare). What’s behind this boom?

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