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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Technologies They Most Look Forward to

Hearpreneur

It’s amazing how new technology keeps coming up. As a business owner, you must keep up with these technological improvements and perhaps adopt some to improve efficiency. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies they most look forward to and here are the responses. #1- 2- Advances in medical technology.

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Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse

Steve Blank

These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Equally important their VP of Marketing had brilliantly executed a stream of social media campaigns (Facebook likes and partnerships, email campaigns, etc.)

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. During Jeff Immelt’s tenure GE’s stock-market value fell by about half. billion of GE stock – about 1.5%

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Stock Photos vs. Real Photos: Does It Matter?

ConversionXL

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high-quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information,” “long descriptions,” and “reviews and ratings”: ( Image source ). Joann Peck and Suzanne B.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

ConversionXL

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information”, “long descriptions”, and “reviews & ratings”: Joann Peck & Suzanne B. image source.

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Founder Interview: Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of SoStereo, Marketing with Music

The Startup Magazine

We give brands and creative agencies an easy and affordable way to access real music by real artists for their branded content and campaigns. They had been licensing music from major artists, and while they loved the impact those campaigns created, they didn’t always have those kinds of budgets.

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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

5- Calculate stock reorder levels Photo Credit: Dani Mechlowitz When building an e-commerce business, it's essential to keep track of your inventory to avoid sell-out periods. In that initial growth phase, running out of stock can be detrimental and slow down the momentum of your business growth. Next, technology is your ally.

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