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What Is a Business Model? Business Models Explained

Up and Running

It’s an explanation of how you deliver value to your customers at an appropriate cost. These tools let entrepreneurs experiment, test, and, well, model different ways that they could structure their costs and revenue streams. Everything it takes to sell that thing: marketing, distribution, delivering a service, and processing the sale.

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Better, Cheaper, More Convenient

Rob Go

It would cost way too much money and way too many years of R&D and new patents to be able to create a razor that shaves more effectively. Convenience tends to be an area where incumbents struggle, especially when convenience is tied to new forms of distribution. Not even close. Why Convenience is Better.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

At first glance, mobile payments seem like a no brainer… consumers [seemingly] want the convenience of paying with a phone rather than cash or credit card, merchants dislike the cost associated with accepting credit cards, and mobile ecosystem players (e.g. I’ve been an interested observer of electronic payments for 12+ years.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Remote-Distributed (a.k.a. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.