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8 Creative Pricing Strategies Most Startups Overlook

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, I believe that Starbucks surprised most people by proving that they could take a commodity business, a coffee shop, and make it a worldwide profit winner, just by justifying premium pricing with a quality product, the right locations, personalized service, and appealing to the professional customer personas.

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8 Unpublicized Strategies From Serious Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t look to customers for breakthrough ideas. Steve Jobs and Henry Ford are famous for their assertion that, contrary to popular belief, the customer isn't always right about what they want next. You now have many bosses, including partners, investors, and customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/03/2021.

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Micromobility in limbo: Takeaways from Paris and LA

TechCrunch LA

What type of market, if any, is the right one? Paris has been an important market for the e-scooter industry at large, but the city has chafed against the vehicles, citing safety incidents , some of which were fatal. In 2021, over 1.2 A spokesperson recently told us that Los Angeles is Lime’s biggest American market today.

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6 Ways A Business Can Lead With ‘We’ Rather Than ‘Me’

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers are looking for a differentiator today. If you haven’t changed for several years the way you do common processes, like customer satisfaction surveys, lead generation, and marketing, it’s time to look at the new remote apps and social media platforms for more effective and relevant alternatives. Practice your agility.

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How to Promote School Network Scalability

Southern California Edison Blog

The education sector tends to have limited resources dedicated to IT investments which can make it challenging for schools to integrate the network technologies and keep up with the latest advancements. Even so, schools are increasingly relying on cloud computing to store and handle data in lieu of managing data on local servers.

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5 Ways To Make It Easier To Do What Matters At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you have learned, your top- priority task must be to educate others around you. Start with your own story, the mission of your business, and how to make everyone in your domain, including customers, into advocates and teachers. This means using what you have learned to anticipate market change and prepare for it.

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Origin wants to make accessible physical therapy women’s new normal

TechCrunch LA

“We had originally planned to spend more time with in person care and then actually launch our digital platform — telehealth — in 2021. “That is going to stay the same but our goal is to build a network of practices across the country in partnership with the leading providers in each market.

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