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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. Now the only differentiator is size preference and UX. . We could regard this as evidence of its permanence. Phablet anyone?

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

Using this idea to differentiate themselves as the hot new Silicon Valley VCs, some of his former business school students made this phrase their rallying cry. In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Over the next ten years, while Ford focused on cost reductions, General Motors built a diverse and differentiated product line.

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

Up and Running

“The Fab Five”—The 1993 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. It also presents an opportunity to differentiate your product or service in a competitive market. On April 5, 1993 the two teams went head to head. Failure is rarely the end of the story, especially for businesses.

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[Interview] Ed Rempel, Certified Financial Planner, Founder Of Unconventional Wisdom

YoungUpstarts

Ed Rempel has been countering financial conventions at least since he hung up his professional shingle as a Toronto-based certified financial planner in 1993. It’s one of the differentiators that should guide individuals when they are looking for investment advisors.

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[Interview] Tony Saldanha, Author of ‘Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead’

YoungUpstarts

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. should all retail companies become like Amazon).

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I founded the firm in 1993 management consulting companies tended to use a leverage model (the junior staff did most of the work) and projects were multi-phased often lasting months to years. I built and grew a business with the key differentiator being speed.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Someone actually answering a phone, answering questions because that’s really going to help differentiate you. Peter: John, what if I built my website in 1993 and maybe it’s due for an update? Peter: John, what if I built my website in 1993 and maybe it’s due for an update? You built your website in 1993?

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