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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Warren Buffet, 1997. Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. Would they be loyal? Damn straight it would.

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Entrepreneurs, Be Careful to Avoid Penny Stock Scams

The Startup Magazine

By 1997, the company’s penny stocks were valued at $4.4 No Net Sales Scams. Investors typically purchase these stocks because they the demand for these stocks are huge. Walsh falsely claimed that Bre-X found a gold mine in Burma. This mining scam is one of the most famous mining scams. Guru Scams.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

million just to replace losses from the current recession, then an additonal 10 million to keep up with population growth and to spark demand over the next decade. economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 In the 1990s the U.S. million a year. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We need our team members to have sustainable work / life balance or risk losing them to another less demanding industry all together. As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. Just so you know, it helped immeasurably. Life is good.

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Net and VC Loyalty

BeyondVC

It reminds me of a panel that I spoke on in 1997 at the Red Herring Java Technology Conference. On the enterprise side, the only reason I would support having a company move off an existing platform to.Net is if there was significant customer demand for it and if Microsoft would really provide the company with access to its channel.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Thousands of people around the net participated in a vast, spontaneous discussion that explored issues like mandatory overtime, productivity, job portability, laziness, unionization, lawsuits and the general evil of corporations. Ea_spouse received thousands of comments to her original post — followed quickly by major media coverage.