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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. This means you can — and should!

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use. Today UEC Electronics has increased its workforce more than tenfold, from that original 10 to now 115, and is considered a key government contractor.

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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

This initiative is starting with a $45 million pilot program that encourages collaboration between the government and industry for more support of new innovation in manufacturing and growth for the economy. Recent months have seen impressive auto sales figures, and that momentum is expected to continue for some time. Auto industry.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Basically, employees purchase their own individual policies on the open market (a purchase frequently offset by government subsidies), and employers reimburse them. For many, it’s been a struggle.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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10 Business Areas Where Data Is The Key To The Future

Startup Professionals Musings

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. By transforming a single shopper's path into data points, companies can see how you move through a store, and how that tracks with sales. Every day, we create 2.5 Protecting the environment. Data is the new weapon of defense.

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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer).