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With New 21 Percent Corporate Tax Rate, S-Corps Are Taking A Second Look At C-Corp Status

YoungUpstarts

Certainly, on the face of it, the argument appears compelling for S-Corps to switch, having previously shied away from such consideration given the onerous double tax that accompanied C-Corp status – at both the entity level, and secondly, upon distribution of dividends to shareholders.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

For Microsoft to have tackled the areas they missed – cloud, music, mobile, apps – would have required an organizational transformation to a services company. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Instead there is everything to gain.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

For Microsoft to have tackled the areas they missed – cloud, music, mobile, apps – would have required an organizational transformation to a services company. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Instead there is everything to gain.

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Build a Competitor Profile for Clues to Delivering Better Value

Up and Running

Even if you compete in the B2B arena, many product and service categories are saturated with competition. In the dog-eat-dog world of contract manufacturing, paying close attention to competitors can pay dividends. Also, most of the players in any given industry are visible at a trade show. And that’s one company!

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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

But it was established back in 1839 as the Valley Falls Company, a textile manufacturer. The company remained in textiles until 1967, when Buffett expanded investments into the insurance industry, a reach that now includes utilities, railroads, and newspapers. The last of the textile operations were shut down in 1985. Western Union.

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How To See The Distinction Between Business Objectives And Business Priorities

YoungUpstarts

When it comes to driving long-term profitable growth few things matter more than a well-supplied customer-driven innovation pipeline and a focus on retailer relationships that ‘work’ to the mutual benefit of manufacturers and retailers alike. Fish where there are fish. Jason Green is the CEO of The Cambridge Group.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Consider the method used by TPGTEX Label Solutions, a Houston -based software company that specializes in bar codes and labels for manufacturers and chemical companies. And so startups – great and terrible alike - are prone to give these ideas lip service, but fail to really take maximum advantage. Why didn’t we learn more?