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Are you or your business “time bankrupt?”

Berkonomics

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. It’s a classic case of time bankruptcy.

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Know and avoid “time bankruptcy.”

Berkonomics

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. . I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. Time bankruptcy.

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Are you or your business “time bankrupt?”

Berkonomics

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. It’s a classic case of time bankruptcy.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. I’ve spent more than two decades in the software industry. When I first started the company, we used to take up pretty much everything in the software development spectrum. Virtina ! #16-

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Twitter Link Roundup #81 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Puzzled about Dish Network’s purchase of Bluckbuster bankruptcy assets – [link]. Well thought out points on building a web design community – [link]. 30 Very Funny Print Ads – [link].

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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

The deal could not materialize — and now the situation is such that the success of Netflix was one of the primary reasons behind the bankruptcy of Blockbuster. Multiple tools and technology available can enable innovation in organizations, no-code software development being a pioneer in them.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. When a couple of Chicago software developers working on Apartments.com's lookup searches got tired of phoning restaurants to order takeout, it dawned on them: Why isn't there a one-stop shop for food delivery? It cost him $4.8B