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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. They’re chopping costs and upping revenue. So they use a pre-made solution, customize the appearance, plug in sales tax and ecommerce software, and then sell immediately.

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4 Best Business Brokers To Sell A Business

YoungUpstarts

The advantages of a dual agent is that this person is already working with buyers, so they most likely already have someone in mind to possibly purchase your business before you even list it for sale. What it means for a seller is a quick and easy sale because those buyers are already qualified with financing in the works.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. He continues: It’s OK to continue to operate. What the big studies have shown. Why brand matters more than ever.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. Gaining valuable skills such as sales and marketing can be applied to every single business and leveraged to build your own.

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Cash control during these strange times

Berkonomics

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. A shocking example of operations affecting cash control. And profits from the sale of the product create cash for development of the next product.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

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