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Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge: The Make or Break Difference

Up and Running

If you find yourself in the situation where the technology vital to creating differentiation becomes an illusion, there are better alternatives than attempting to “gut it out” with a direct attack on the target market. Trying harder by attempting to do what your competitor does better than they do it is a very tough road.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

From then on, every harvest he’d pack into the bike and trek over 40 miles away to Melbourne to sell. Even though there were several shoemakers at the time, Dassler was committed to differentiating his merchandise by asking athletes for their opinions on the options they wished in an exceeding shoe, and their impressions of his prototypes.

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The Entrepreneur’s Wish List from VCs [part 1]

VC Cafe

What started originally as how can VCs differentiate themselves to stand out, quickly became an Entrepreneur’s wish list from its VCs. Sow the seeds & harvest the dealflow later. VC Cafe asked entrepreneurs to tell us what type of help or support they wish they could get from the venture capital investors.

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5 things that suck (about hiring new employees) and 10 things companies can do about it

crowdSPRING Blog

they know how to write (a critical differentiator when choosing between two otherwise qualified applicants), 2. Try to leave the job posting up as long as you can manage and harvest as many applications as you can. they took the time to understand the position and the company, 3. This moment. Give yourself choices.

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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

One, a focus on great customer care has become, in the era of Zappos, not just a requisite checkbox, but an opportunity for differentiation, and a primary means of acquiring and retaining users (customer care as a revenue generator, not just a cost center). Two trends since that incident have made the issue even more important today.

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10 Ways to Manage Pest Birds in Your Farm

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Unlike other birds, these species are not protected against harvesting, control, extermination, and dispersal. At first, it might not be easy to differentiate between the nests built by bird pests and those built by more desirable bird species. They include the European starling, the pigeon, and the house sparrow.

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Product Lifecycle Marketing: What Matters Most at Every Stage

ConversionXL

Also during the Growth phase, you’ll dive deeper into competitor analyses to determine how your value proposition compares and which aspects of your product or brand will help differentiate. When will the company harvest or withdraw the product? Harvesting the product ekes out the last bits of profitability. Research needs.

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