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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

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And, and it was just a, it was just a realization, but particularly in an age where the finance guys run the companies and cost minimization is the holy grail. And the three rules were revenue before cost, uh, I don't know, quality before, whatever. Just a cost. Just a cost. I mean, for God's sakes, it's a, it's a cost.

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Transcript of How to Turn Your Product Idea Into a Business

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Here’s the deal, whether you’re creating a package or creating a product or some piece of marketing communication, it generally costs the same amount of money to produce something bad as something good. Quite often when you’re offshoring and producing in another country there will be a proposal from the factory.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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In my case, I grew up in Connecticut and spent a fair amount of time in New York – all the while trying to start companies, relatively unsuccessfully. However, nowhere has as many real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, landlords, employees, co-founders, mentors, and VCs all steeped in startup culture as does Silicon Valley.