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The Top Nine Challenges Of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business And How To Tackle Them

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The 54 companies in the study operated product and service businesses, had been in business on average 9.6 Some of them, such as Eyebobs in Minneapolis, Trilogy Health Services in Kentucky, Defender Direct in Indianapolis, SecureWorks in Atlanta, and Mellace Family Brands in California, were well-known companies.

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3 IT Bottlenecks You Can Start Tackling Today

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Process bottlenecks can result in stressed employees, wasted time, unhappy clients or customers, and lost revenue due to low-quality outputs. Administrators are typically tasked with gathering information from or for employees, customers, clients, patients, or the like. And if it isn’t collected efficiently (i.e.,

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What Fortune 500 Companies Can Learn From The Military’s Top 0.01%: Business Lessons From The Blue Angels  

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We were lined up together, four jets on the runway packing 128,000 pounds of thrust, and we carried more horsepower than the entire starting lineup of the Indianapolis 500. On top of it, stack all of the related elements and teams: sales, marketing, operations, HR, and administration.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

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Takeaway : Customer data should improve the user experience, not make it tougher for people to leave. Federal Communications Commission rolled out Wireless Local Number Portability , cell phone service providers retained customers with high switching costs. Customer data. Facebook has built its moat with customer data.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Global and Local.

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Eight Ways To Fight Entrepreneurial Fires And Constantly Improve In The Process

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I learned this lesson from Dave Lindsey, a successful entrepreneur and founder of Defender Direct in Indianapolis. Marketing plans for advertising to new customers, new service or product initiatives, hiring needed staff, etc. You should also have checklists critical to the operation of your business. all fall by the wayside.

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[Interview] Bluebridge Digital CEO Discusses The State Of The Cloud

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by Eva McKnight, Formstack Santiago Jaramillo is the CEO of Bluebridge Digital , an Indianapolis startup that specializes in app development and maintenance for clients who may currently be underrepresented in the mobile market. At Bluebridge Digital, we use cloud computing in nearly every aspect of our business.

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