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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

Cutting costs , revisiting forecasts , and stabilizing your business. You’re not forgetting it or avoiding the practices that have saved your business so far. For entrepreneurs looking to start a business or for established businesses looking to pivot their business model , you can use AI to build as-a-service operations.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Of course this is Survivor Bias at it’s finest; these examples don’t prove this is a great strategy , they just illustrate that it can work: Zappos decided to sell shoes over the Internet, even though it meant eating shipping costs as customers tried shoe after shoe, constantly returning merchandise on the basis of fit or look.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

In order to achieve such feats, Strike uses (at least initially) a trusted or custodial model that hedges any BTC risk with their own trading desks and infrastructure. Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping. And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. 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.

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of this century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. This new framework can act as the front-end of Customer Development.

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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services.

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Why I Am Cutting Costs And Changing Business Models

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Previously I spent money easily and didn’t worry if I was “wasting&# money here and there because my focus was on generating revenue. Since my new projects won’t generate revenue for a while, I’ve reduced costs, an activity many business owners neglect, which is a real opportunity to increase profit.