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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience as a business consultant, I find than most people still believe that technology drives business disruption. I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. I recommend creating new services and products for existing customers.

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Pay Your Payroll Tax With R&D Credits

YoungUpstarts

The Federal R&D credit amounts to roughly 5% of the wages, materials, and outside contractor expenses in research activities related to product and software development, including: Product conceptualization and development. Patentable products, software, or production methods. Manufacturing products.

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How Robots Are Revolutionizing the Manufacturing Industry (and saving jobs!)

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Advancements in technology are changing the industry, and this is a great thing. Line production robots have been used in manufacturing for decades, but the days of robots only performing repetitive, pre-programmed tasks are nearing the end. Staying Competitive with Increased Productivity. The answer is simple productivity.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. This is a good choice if you need ongoing support and are ready to make a greater commitment to tech-based marketing than just a one-off mobile or social app.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

9:33) Scaling Up Excellence , process debt, technical debt, and human capital debt, plus rapid prototyping during the pandemic. (13:58) 18:21) Carl on optimism and what he did as head of stores at Home Depot post-Katrina to take care of customers and employees, including selling products out of the back of a truck via an IOU system.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

16:25) Be aware of what's happening in the marketing of your products, learn everything you can about what's going on in your industry to set your company up for the future. (18:56) 47:20) Mark's predictions for how business and society are going to change, the products we'll need and the opportunities that will come out of those needs. (48:11)

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

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Loading… Tech. Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. 1. - Web Design/Tech Services. Chemicals & Allied Products. Fabricated Metal Products.