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How to Be Ready for What’s Next

Duct Tape Marketing

Under his leadership, the company grew from just over $6 million in annual revenue in 1993 to over $1.6 billion as they transformed Cree from a start-up into a global market leader with 6,500 employees worldwide. Under his leadership, the company grew from just over $6 million in annual revenue in 1993 to over $1.6

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

states for-profit companies can accept donations and nonprofit companies earn revenue, which dispels the myths that a nonprofit can’t make money, or a for-profit venture would miss out on donations. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. They also note that after the 2007 recession—when things looked grim for the U.S.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

Increase recurring revenue. Pete Fader, Professor of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania, shares why in his book Customer Centricity : Not all customers deserve your company’s best efforts. The best way to say sorry, in my case, was to use all of my revenue and invest it back into the customer. Increase brand reputation.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania. start-ups fail, he says.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

Though a global innovator, Apple in 2010 only invested 2% of its revenue in R&D, much lower than other high-tech companies. Cornell University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have been chosen to build a cutting-edge NYC Tech Campus that will serve as a global magnet for tech talent and entrepreneurship.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Easy question to answer, and free with Compete (remember, this is US visits only) or SimilarWeb (global traffic). If you are looking for short-term revenue or quick wins, you are better off skipping it (do something boring, but profitable, like Email or Affiliate marketing). So let's start there.

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