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

Steve Blank

Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Often the short-term cuts directly affect employee salaries, jobs, and long-term investment in R&D. So what happened?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Similarly, when Flexible VC structures are based off of the founder’s own compensation (often via salary or dividends), investors are specifically tying their returns to the financial success of the founder.

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16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice That’s The Complete Opposite of What They Learned Before Starting Their Venture

Hearpreneur

Initial perfection is an unrealistic goal and most of my learnings were devised after I started testing strategies and making sales. 15- Go innovate Photo Credit: Jabe Brown The same people told me that employing my practitioners and health coaches on salary wouldn't work, being way too expensive. Thanks to Ryan Stone, Lambda Films !

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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

With their affordability, you can invest in several and gain more return by earning customer trust before a sale occurs. Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- #2- Means investing in micro-influencers. Photo Credit: Ben Reynolds. 3- So influenced by what is happening on social media. Photo Credit: Jeanine Duval.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

Both Sides of the Table

It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. The last thing you want the CEO (or heads of sales, marketing, product) doing is sinking 3 days every month into preparing board packs. Here’s the dilemma. You created the damn product!

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The Partnership Dilemma: Six Factors Every Consultant Should Consider Before Tying The Knot 

YoungUpstarts

Is good in sales and marketing. How will you decide on salary? Will you both earn equal salary? Prior to becoming an official partnership, my partner and I agreed that he would work for at least one year at a reduced salary. The salary not taken was his way of buying into the company. Is ethical and trustworthy.

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I Quit My Job And Lived To Tell

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

She has since built up a client base and worked hard to establish an online brand that has paid dividends. The nagging, doubtful part of my mind kept poking at my entrepreneurial will with scary questions: Everyone else has to work 9-5 for a salary, what makes you so special that you’re going to do it differently?

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