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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, one of the first home grocery delivery companies, Webvan, was so enamored with early traction in Silicon Valley, it raised and spent nearly a billion dollars and went public, before filing for bankruptcy three years later. Suddenly you face new overhead, with hiring, office space, benefits, and new advertising campaigns.

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Lean Management: 3 Things Your Business Can Learn from Toyota

Transformify

It may be the wrong marketing channel, inadequate optimization of digital marketing and social media campaigns that end up targeting irrelevant audience, a brand statement that actually results in annoying the users and losing their trust, product flaws, technology setbacks and much more.

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Expansion Tips: Pros and Cons Of Franchising Your Growing Business

YoungUpstarts

Many entrepreneurs work hard to establish a brand and a business model that brings success, only to find they’ve hit a plateau where further expansion seems difficult. One solution that merits serious consideration is turning your operation into a franchise-focused business. by Cameron Johnson.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. Rent Seekers.

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How Startups Can Beat Seasonality

YoungUpstarts

Here’s how to change your business model in order to mitigate or leverage seasonal demand: Level out revenues. This has involved leveling out revenues, curtailing costs and launching complementary campaigns. Off-Season Campaigns. Mitigating Seasonality. Keep a presence for Easter, 4 th of July and Labor Day etc.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

This got me thinking about the legal obstacles that face innovators with new business models. Rent seekers are individuals or organizations that have succeeded with existing business models and look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against innovative competition. Rent Seekers.

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

Join us at this interview and hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse. This event is in support of the Mayor’s campaign to drive gender equality in London #BehindEveryGreatCity. you’re going to take some hits.