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Case Study: Resolving Airline Engineering Issues Using Videoconferencing

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Airline engineering issues arise due to lack of oversight; methods used for risk management and the use of temporary employees and outsourced specialists. We offer videoconferencing services that can bring airline engineers together online to resolve issues and discuss the industry. Connecting Engineers.

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3 Ways Acquisition Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Starting Your Own Business

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Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein. Adopting a “getting on base” strategy engineers greater success in entrepreneurship — a field with high rates of failure. Many entrepreneurs don’t consider acquisition entrepreneurship because it doesn’t seem as exciting as building something brand-new.

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How To Evaluate Your Company’s Value

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For example, a company with an ugly balance sheet and modest revenues in an up-and-coming industry, such as telemedicine, will have significantly more unquantifiable value than a company with tremendous assets and large revenues in a declining industry, such as internal combustion engines. If your company is worth only $2.5

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Financing Acquisitions: Keys to Structuring the Deal And Obtaining The Funding

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Of course, these are important ingredients to growth, but the – perhaps unconventional – truth is that this kind of growth can be riskier and less compelling to investors than growth through acquisition. A desired deal is one that is engineered specifically with the big picture in mind. Structuring the Desired Deal.

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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

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For example, we worked with a company and observed that each release required eleven engineers. When startups make new hires, it’s not uncommon to then promote the longest-tenured engineer, tasking them with onboarding staff. The newly-promoted engineer often has no managerial experience. Seed to Series D: Collaboration.

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Are You A Necessity Entrepreneur? Ask These 7 Questions

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That doesn’t mean you need to be a software developer or an engineer — though that can be a big advantage, depending on your industry — but you must be comfortable with technology in general. His healthcare venture, benefitsCONNECT, innovated healthcare benefits administration and resulted in a highly successful acquisition.

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Eight Reasons Why Your Subscription Model Customers May Be Jumping Ship

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Just ask Blue Apron, which has found itself in the news recently for its poor stock market performance and its widely criticized acquisition-focused growth strategy — not to mention CEO Brad Dickerson’s unwillingness to release its retention numbers. Blue Apron is hardly alone with its churn problem.

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