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Janesville – A Story About the Rest of America

Steve Blank

I got to see the peak of America’s manufacturing prowess in the 1970s, when we actually made things – before we shipped the factories and jobs overseas. First , America was built on workers who believed that their hard work would allow their children to have opportunities to do better. The Janesville’s across the U.S.

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10 Higher Education Trends To Watch For In 2019

YoungUpstarts

by Danny Iny, author of “ Leveraged Learning: How the Disruption of Education Helps Lifelong Learners, and Experts with Something to Teach “ The way America prepares its young people for the workforce is shifting. Once the education bubble bursts, America’s current higher education path will change dramatically.

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Q4 2020 Portfolio Review

Version One Ventures

We hope you’re well rested and recharged from the holidays! Manny Medina of Outreach was named to Comparably’s Top 50 list for Best CEOs in 2020 as rated by employees. . For a second consecutive year , Jobber was named one of the fastest-growing companies in North America on Deloitte’s 2020 Technology Fast 500. .

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. In America we have ten federal holidays bringing the annual WD count to 240. We also have employment tax in America. Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees. Easy money, right?

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Critical Tips to Developing an Effective Marketing Strategy for Startups in “Boring” Industries

ReadWriteStart

At this point, you probably have a solid understanding of your target audience and who you want to do business with, but what about the rest of your team? However, your brand must be consistent , so it’s essential to establish the feeling you want to evoke in the customer and use that to inform the rest of your brand assets.

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What Are the Risks of Using Personal Email for Board Business?

Board Effect

The survey contains responses from 411 governance professionals across 11 countries in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The percentage in North America was 53% which was the highest percentage in the study. European boards were slightly lower at 41% and the Asia Pacific was 48%.

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The mid-market briar patch

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They’re not “small enough to be nimble,” because at fifty employees they’ve already established much of the lumbering process and bureaucracy of companies a hundred times their size. There are 220,000 businesses in America having 50-500 employees, and only 18,000 businesses with more than 500.

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