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Buying a Business

Up and Running

How do the company’s actuals stack up against their financial forecasts? Does the company own trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property? Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2007. Is there an up-to-date business plan ? How does it protect those assets? It was revised in 2018.

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How Can We Really Measure The ROI of Optimization?

ConversionXL

According to an article on Duke University’s website , “A stationarized series is relatively easy to predict: you simply predict that its statistical properties will be the same in the future as they have been in the past!”. It’s like creating Intellectual Property for your business out of customer data.”

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. For previous editions, click here. The growth figure is largely based on a new 9.1%