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4 Miscues That Can Transform Popular Brands Into Troubled Brands

YoungUpstarts

by Larry Light, CEO of Arcature and co-author of “ Six Rules of Brand Revitalization: Learn the Most Common Branding Mistakes and How to Avoid Them “ Early this year, The Limited shut down its 250 clothing stores and not long after that the women’s apparel chain announced it was filing for bankruptcy protection.

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4 Miscues That Can Transform Popular Brands Into Troubled Brands

YoungUpstarts

by Larry Light, Chief Executive Officer of Arcature and co-author of “ Six Rules of Brand Revitalization: Learn the Most Common Branding Mistakes and How to Avoid Them “ Early this year, The Limited shut down its 250 clothing stores and not long after that the women’s apparel chain announced it was filing for bankruptcy protection.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. I suggested that Chile’s mining industry could contribute to building innovation leadership by funding a multi-tiered initiative in the country’s leading universities: Professional management training (obvious and immediate payback). See below.).

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

In America, Silicon Valley’s cycles of creative destruction and renewal continuously spawn many new challengers– by funding multiple startups that compete relentlessly until they reach dominant self-sustainability, acquisition by a competitor, or bankruptcy.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Since both sets of my parents went through bankruptcy while I was a child, learning about how to manage money became almost an obsession of mine. I do this through motivational speaking, leadership and business coaching, HR consulting and writing and I the impact I make is what keeps me going even when times get rough.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. Grew up here in the Central Valley of California, left for early work and career in college, bounced around North America for a while, returned home to start this company. It feels really, really obvious."

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The New American Dream: Why Unleashing Your Inner Entrepreneur Is The Only Way Out Of This Mess

YoungUpstarts

We’ve all heard the horror stories: families so sunk in consumer debt they were forced to declare bankruptcy and individuals whose educational debt haunted them for the rest of their lives. “I will no longer view debt as negative, because I will use credit to invest so I can get out of destructive debt for the rest of my life.”.