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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

Up and Running

One of the judges (me) challenges the entrepreneurs that their numbers — particularly the margins, meaning gross margin (sales less costs of sales) and profit before taxes (gross margin less operating expenses) are way too high. There’s a projector with PowerPoint, a moderator, a table of judges, and just a few spectators.

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Separating Regional Economic Development Fact From Fiction

Feld Thoughts

Today I read the following headline in the Boulder Daily Camera: “ Phillips 66 to sell 432-acre campus in Louisville. Bill Ritter on Wednesday revealed that ConocoPhillips has purchased the former StorageTek campus in Louisville.” However, the sale of a piece of property doesn’t signal anything.

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Transcript of The Secrets to Leading Creative People

Duct Tape Marketing

Todd Henry: I think it is fair, but I think that this applies to really leading any group of people that has to figure it out and make it up as they go, so if you’re a sales organization, you’re having to come up with creative solutions all the time to reach potential clients, having to re-strategize all the time.

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StartupBus – Round 2, Part 2 – Mexico Storms San Antonio, Steals StartupBus Show – (Post #6)

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I even won the SelfPublishing.com Glengarry Book Sales Platinum award 6 times over on fitness books alone. I hadn’t seen Shak smile since Louisville, and just look at him. ( I’m not kidding about Louisville ). Unlike tech businesses that are in style one week and out the next, people are always gonna wanna work out.