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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

Eric, as you know, I grew up in suburban New Jersey and in suburban New Jersey, we ate a lot of Benihana growing up and I love the Americanized version of this deeply traditional Japanese meal. This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. On Deciens’ Lean Operation.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Carl Liebert : Yeah. You're usually your own worst critic.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. Low Cost Franchises. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Pension Crisis Looms Despite Cuts. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Commented.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost. You want to make sure that you understand, does it cost $10 to get a customer?

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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? But then by my second year, I had a real interest in finance.