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6 Keys To Startup Wins Without Disruptive Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

What you probably don’t realize is that the term disruptive brings its own set of baggage, implying to investors extra high risk, high market building costs, and a long slow ramp before payback.

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How to Improve Profit by an Average of 11.1%

Austin Startup

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. How does your pricing relate to marginal costs of production or service? The importance of price.

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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

Automated call services is an example of a time- and cost-saver your customers may not love. I’m convinced that the Pirates’ emphasis on culture is a big reason why the team won 94 games and made it to the post-season in 2013, after not having a winning record since 1992. Not always.

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How to Hack Your College or Graduate School Education

David Teten

You’re likely investing $20,000-$50,000/year, plus opportunity cost, to attend school. I’ve been gestating this since 1992. How can you maximize the benefits of all the years and all the money that you are investing? I have a tentative answer. I’ve also posted slides from presentations I’ve made on this topic.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

It wasn’t until they added Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumars, John Salley, and Rick Mahorn that the team took on a more aggressive style of play, a “win-at-all-costs” attitude, and acquired the “Bad Boys” moniker. Although Michigan lost that 1992 championship game to Duke, The Fab Five surprised everyone by making it as far as they did.

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How to Hack Your College or Graduate School Education

David Teten

You’re likely investing $20,000-$50,000/year, plus opportunity cost, to attend school. I’ve been gestating this since 1992. How can you maximize the benefits of all the years and all the money that you are investing? I have a tentative answer. I’ve also posted slides from presentations I’ve made on this topic.

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What No One Ever Tells You About Business Failures

Up and Running

a California corporation, became an Oregon corporation in 1992, and the California corporation died in 1994. It was just kind of a thought I had, and it cost me $35 to register it. Palo Alto Software, Inc., So there you see another business dying, and see it wasn’t. It never did anything.