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The BS List - We Don't Like This Space (No. 52)

This is going to be BIG.

We went on two Noken trips, including our honeymoon and we used the concierge to reschedule a puffin boat tour in Iceland. Total cost was just $5 per traveler per day and Noken took a cut of the bookings. You answered a few basic questions about travel preferences, like pace, the fanciness of the hotel, etc.,

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Five Drivers of Real Opportunity for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The BP oil spill in the Gulf, the volcanic eruption in Iceland, and recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, all suggest that real opportunities for change are needed in pollution control, just-in-time manufacturing, and building materials. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster. The impact of global instability.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). Hence, over time, though the costs were reasonable, I've become shy about these resources as a source of value/quality. See Page 269. :).

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