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Before You Buy a Hotel Business, Answer These 4 Questions

Up and Running

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. Write a business plan. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. So, in some ways, for sure our costs have gone up, and we're trying to fast forward all these programs to support people even more. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? Could they make businesses out of it? They're almost linear in terms of usage.

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Boom and Bust and What Comes Next

Scalable Startup

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. Will they relocate staff to Stockton, or maybe Las Vegas—or simply send the work overseas?