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13 Tips to Ensure Your Small Business Is Paid On Time and In Full

Up and Running

Being prepared to walk away from a sale is difficult, but if the payment terms a customer is demanding are not reasonable, if they are a chronically late payer, or if their credit does not warrant selling on terms, it may be necessary. Late payments affect your cash flow. percent of all of those invoices are being paid late.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

On this day we stopped looking at the hosted version as a new product line, and started looking at it as a market test; to see if we could build enough of a customer base to warrant a major investment in the hosted invoicing market space. and Canada. With that in mind, things started flying off our "must-have" list.

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The Artificial Intelligence Opportunity: A Camel to Cars Moment

Occam's Razor

Or, programming a new and even more frustrating in-flight entertainment menu for Air Canada (who have the worst one known to mankind). I assure you, skepticism is warranted. Think of 14 humans learning a new task. Peeling an apple. Or, laying down track for a railroad.

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10 Essential PR Tips for Startups

mashable.com

Just because a reporter has written about the top startups in Canada doesn’t mean he wants to know about your Canadian printing company. In fact, an interesting study, infographic or other data sometimes warrants its own pitch. Another common mistake is to misunderstand a writer’s coverage area. Offer Up Unique Data.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. Post-Mortem Title : Leaving IonLab. Company : IonLab. Author : Swaroop C H.