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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

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Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

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We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. Believe it or not, banking is a core part of some businesses (think PayPal or Zopa), but for most of us, it’s a basic support service to be outsourced. Advertising.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. Fast forward nearly a decade and it was unsurprising to me to see the death grip that global mobile operators placed over the handsets. The created a hegemony that delayed innovation until January 2007 when the iPhone was introduced.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. Ramping up too quickly will burn precious cash reserve and could sink the business. Michael Kassing. Let me just say "Thanks". to acquire the client.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

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In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. We begin by describing a typical a growth model and discuss how that fundamentally drives a company’s business strategy. I’m Lauren Murrow.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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I’m not afraid to pick up the phone, cold call someone, use LinkedIn to find someone who’s recently left a company that might be considered competitive and ask them for advise around the business model and marketplace. I’ve developed a very simple work processing framework. Now our biz model is lighter, more flexible.