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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

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Customer Service – As newspaper boys were the face of their employers, savvy carriers learned to establish healthy customer relationships to facilitate timely collections and generous tips. Newspaper delivery was not the only way that children in the US’s pre-litigious era could learn and deploy important entrepreneurial skills.

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5 Phases Of Every Startup That Regulate Your Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. Lewis explore these cultural issues, both national and international, that can make or break your company strategy. Product-line expansion.

Startup 142
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Company Lifecycle And Culture Change Too Fast Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. Lewis explore these culture issues, both national and international, that can make or break your company strategy. Product-line expansion.

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5 Lifecycle Stages Of A New Venture Test Your Culture

Startup Professionals Musings

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. Lewis explore these cultural issues, both national and international, that can make or break your company strategy. Product-line expansion.

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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make. When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

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Thin Line--formed in partnership with LA's Wavemaker Partners--is hoping to take advantage of the growth in the clean technology market to find startups able to tapping into those now established markets, without the huge investment requirements of those first wave of clean technology companies. Talk about the new firm and the new fund?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. We all wanted intros.