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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

I recommend creating new services and products for existing customers. Shipping costs increased, but membership fees from 100 million new Prime members more than made up for it. Shipping costs increased, but membership fees from 100 million new Prime members more than made up for it. Customers don’t wait today.

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How to Navigate the New Era of Customer Expectations

Duct Tape Marketing

Conversely, if you cost your customers time, you will also pay the price financially. You had literally no idea what it would cost. You don't have to change your product or service at all you're doing is changing your customer sequencing and reaping the financial rewards accordingly. And you didn't know when he was coming.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. [.] We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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How To Create And Communicate Performance Standards In Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

When new employees are able to become productive team members, your company receives the best return on its investment in personnel. The HR department at Indiana University suggests a helpful list of factors to consider: Are there behaviors that are expected in your department to promote teamwork, leadership, creativity, customer service?

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How Robots Are Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry (and saving jobs!)

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Line production robots have been used in manufacturing for decades, but the days of robots only performing repetitive, pre-programmed tasks are nearing the end. Today, advancements in technology and the lower costs of implementing them, are making it possible for manufacturing jobs to return, or stay, on local soil.

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

View from Seed

So, when I was researching my book, I looked into what actually happened to the manufacturing workers in Michigan, Indiana and in the South. In the public sphere, we take the opposite point of view where we regard people as costs. When workers lost their jobs, they did not behave like the textbooks said that they would.

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Baby Steps To Breakthrough In Regional Economic Development

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The ideas flowing from these questions might require funding, but the choice and the attitude cost nothing. It’s innovation that turns a mountain spring into bottled water — a product on the shelf ready for purchase. Does your region support the arts and cultural events? The bad news is creativity alone gets you nothing.