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5 Biggest Mistakes in Healthcare Staffing by Susanne Mariga, CPA

Mike Michalowicz

PK Scheerle, CEO of Gifted Healthcare, warns that sometimes, new healthcare staffing firms in an eagerness for growth and customers, against their better judgement trade hours for low margin sales. PK says offer your firm up as the firm of quality and convenience letting customers know that you have 4 nurses ready to go.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

Id like to call special attention to Kurt Carr s perspective (lets hope he finishes his five-part series): Now that I’m back in Ohio (I was one of the token foreigners in a room full of Silicon Valley residents), I have found myself reliving and rethinking much of what I saw there. Steve Blank has been a mentor to me for several years.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. ” Hawken School has now given us an answer.

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Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

In addition to giving our customers the power to generate and aggregate audience response data in real time, Turning Technologies has been able to collect and use customer feedback to hone our product development efforts. Finding the right employees and creating an agile, focused team is essential to business success.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. ” Hawken School has now given us an answer.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When brainstorming a name for a new venture, zero in on the promise you want to make to your customers. But most importantly, we wanted it to immediately convey our promise to our customers. When customers hear a made up word or a generic business buzzword, they don’t know what to think. 11 – All About Confidence.

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

Both Sides of the Table

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The sales rep that brings back news from the front line that is shared with the office adds to our collective knowledge about customer needs, product design flaws or partnership opportunities.