Growthink Blog

JUNE 11, 2012

The recent defeat of the recall effort to oust Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker should hearten those that wish to see governments at all levels benefit from the efficiencies and accountabilities that businesses utilize every day to innovate, execute, and thrive. The process is slow.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2018

Is the cost of living affordable? Janesville, Wisconsin, had a billboard advertising their ‘shovel-ready’ land. Even if there isn’t currently a university in town, you can still partner with other colleges to create a local branch, so students can seek higher education closer to home. Is there a downtown?

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Most companies are shifting to in-house hiring, but sometimes using the services of a staffing agency saves time and cost. Equality and supplier diversity are a priority and Aerotek partners with a number of vendors to provide CSR solutions to it's clients. Accrue Partners. The staffing agency specializes in temporary.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

OVP Venture Partners) My own take on this is that a business plan with a bottom up forecast demonstrates an understanding of the potential market that investors love.  It welcomes feedback from potential customers and experts, reduces the cost and risk of the startup and can potentially drive success quickly.  Google Ads.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The most amazing and rewarding story from our start is the fact that 2 cousins Tim and Bob both born in rural Wisconsin could come together to create a product that has been so successful in the natural body care industry. That usually costs time and money. In the end it is the cost of and education and that is priceless.

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Tim Keane

MARCH 24, 2008

Of course, in the interest of being a low cost provider, your call center is staffed by folks with a good customer service orientation, but no medical training. Now, Im a believer in having partners to round out offerings and make sure that all of the customers critical needs are met in the product. Not for an intermediary.

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Tim Keane

JULY 20, 2007

We are very careful about our investment partners for this reason. We actively discourage companies from hiring when they can use contractors, from thinking about developing their own manufacturing, or in any way building too many fixed costs. Fixed costs can be a real burden in a situation of cost overruns. Google Ads.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

What it costs if it does; 4. What it will cost? This cost and timing can easily be laid out in a matrix that may yield to testing easily. Timing relates to cost and I’d like a sense of the total cost of each of those 100 orders. This includes selling costs, marketing costs, and so forth.

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Tim Keane

JULY 16, 2008

Make everything possible an indirect cost. Then, and only then, investigate ways to use capital investment to lower per unit costs. Now I mean that if you take money from the wrong people, or too early in your business life, you wind up with bad deals, bad partners, and bad indigestion - for years. Signup for email updates.

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