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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. Dell – the American multinational computer technology firm had broken the barrier of a million-dollar online sales back in 1994. It also provides pre-configured analytics. The Rise of Ecommerce.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% at United Technologies and 30% at Siemens.

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Dean Vagnozzi on Commercial Real Estate Market Trends & Advice for Newcomers

The Startup Magazine

By 2001, he was invested in the stock market and witnessed a unique situation where the stock market was in a tumble and, simultaneously, real estate was going up. As loans become due and rates balloon, tenants may decide not to renew the leases at all, or at such long terms, exposing the owner to cash flow problems.

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4 Tips To Build A Deep Virtual Bench Of Talent

YoungUpstarts

days in 2001-2003. Leverage Cutting-Edge Technology. Recruiters’ time spent reviewing applications decreased by 75%. LinkedIn also just recently announced TalentInsights , a new big data analytics product that enables HR leaders to delve more deeply into data for hiring.

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12 Tips for Creating and Nurturing Efficient Two-Pizza Teams

YoungUpstarts

In 1989, FedEx knew that it needed to update its old, slow technology. You really do want to staff your team with individuals who are willing to share, serve, and give credit where credit is due. Some are analytical and logical; others are creative and intuitive. Fewer than a dozen if you can manage. You can always add later.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. New Communications Review. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Most tech start-ups fail.

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From CRM to CXM: Walking the Customer Journey

Venture Chronicles

We are certainly not abandoning CRM as a pillar of our positioning, we are recognizing that there is a more expansive vision to aim for, one which borrows on the lessons and capabilities of CRM while more fully embracing a next generation of social technologies that don’t exist exclusively in the context of master data and transaction records.