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Navigating Seasonality While Keeping Cashflow Healthy

YoungUpstarts

As Kabbage customers explain, managing seasonal impact on revenue requires preparation – and if possible, alternate ways to bring money in the door. Launching new services for traditionally slow seasons. To even out cash flow, he recently decided to stage some summer home expos on the New Jersey shore, aimed at vacation home owners.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

for high-volume lower cost cars and by continuing to innovate. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc. Americans paid an extra $5 billion for cars. In contrast, U.S. Lessons Learned.

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I don’t miss the silicon valley (and you shouldn’t either)

The Startup Toolkit

After ~120 meetings everywhere from Boston & New Jersey to LA & Sand Hill Road, we gave up, dug in our heels, and got back to building our business. The vast majority of VC rounds go to revenue generating companies. 60% are for revenue generating companies with a sellable product. Funding can be a red herring.

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Episode 107: Is the Recession Over Yet? with James Coyle

Mike Michalowicz

Coyle is the President of the Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce, one of the largest and most active business associations in New Jersey. Mr. Coyle has also cut management costs and increased revenues, resulting in a substantial improvement in the financial position of the Chamber. Government and foreign governments.

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Strangling Innovation: Tesla versus “Rent Seekers”

Steve Blank

for high-volume lower cost cars and by continuing to innovate. When companies are protected from competition, they have little incentive to cut costs or to pay attention to changing customer needs. i.e. revenue/profit sharing, two-tier hiring, etc. Americans paid an extra $5 billion for cars. In contrast, U.S. Lessons Learned.

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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. They talk about] businesses which are not contractually recurring revenue in the parlance of recurring revenue run rates.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.