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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

Even though many of these can be mitigated by testing and early customer feedback , you will find that it pays big dividends to do your homework before building and rolling out every new initiative: In today’s customer data overload, marketing is essential. Customers won’t buy what they can’t find or don’t understand.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits and raise the dividend. So what happened?

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Corporation or LLC? Business Organizations for Tech Startups.

YoungUpstarts

Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Corporations are allowed to keep their earnings or pay them out as dividends. There are also limitations on how dividends are paid out.

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16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice That’s The Complete Opposite of What They Learned Before Starting Their Venture

Hearpreneur

Reflecting on my own experience, I made the mistake of believing that my expertise in web development and internet marketing, coupled with my co-founder's design skills, would be enough to establish a successful internet marketing agency. I was convinced that valuing my people would pay dividends in retaining the good ones.

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How And Where To Connect To The Entrepreneur Universe

Startup Professionals Musings

It isn't always the first introduction, but the friend of a friend that may be the one that pays dividends. Don’t send your unfinished business plan unsolicited to every VC or investment group you can find on the Internet, just to see if they like the concept. Volunteer to help out with entrepreneur activities at your local university.

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Simple And Effective Ways To Promote Your Business

YoungUpstarts

This may seem like an obvious marketing tool for business but there are still a number of companies that are not promoting themselves on the internet. Dependent on your business, these marketing efforts may pay dividends in customers remembering your brand or slogan. Create a website. Don’t dismiss traditional marketing methods.

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7 Strategies To Solve Your Business Problems Faster

Startup Professionals Musings

Even the best business professionals and leaders must concentrate on learning something new each day, through mentors, Internet resources, and studying competitors. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, then adopting these strategies is critical to surviving and thriving in the uncharted world of startups.

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