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6 Tips Businesses Should Follow to Manage Risks and Provide Resilience

The Startup Magazine

A simple way to do this is to divide the scenarios into three categories; worst-case, likely-case, and best-case, and use your intuition and the facts to make a plan for all consequences. Therefore, properly plan a product before launching it and always have a risk management strategy to compensate for any loss.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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6 Steps To Providing Exceptional Customer Experiences

Startup Professionals Musings

Tie customer experience to all compensation and recognition. Customer-driven compensation is now the norm in most industries, not just consumer-facing ones. If you surveyed your customers today, what percent of your customers would put you in the winning category? Marty Zwilling

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What Every Tech Startup Should Know About Hiring

ReadWriteStart

Additionally, hiring people is costly—and labor expenses will be one of the biggest categories of expenses for your business. In more complex scenarios, you’ll need to think about things like employee compensation, ongoing treatment, and termination. One way around this problem is to find alternative forms of compensation.

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7 Reasons A Small Business Should Hire Advisors 

YoungUpstarts

Executives interested in advisory roles often want the experience, intellectual stimulation, and opportunity to put advisory work on their resume as much as they want the compensation. It can be a per meeting fee, a small equity piece, or any other arrangement, and remember, you can cancel this at any time.

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7 Keys To A Winning Business As A Phone App Developer

Startup Professionals Musings

Compensate for low profit by aiming for maximum reach. This is a tough one to accomplish, but it has paid off handsomely for the first to win in other categories, such as Amazon Kindle and Netflix. But there are a wealth of other categories, new ones are constantly appearing, and the ecosystem is always shifting.

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6 Keys To Enchanting Your Customers With Your Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Tie customer experience to all compensation and recognition. Customer-driven compensation is now the norm in most industries, not just consumer-facing ones. If you surveyed your customers today, what percent of your customers would put you in the winning category? Marty Zwilling.

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