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10 Business Skills That Require Remedial Training

Startup Professionals Musings

In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. The challenge is to communicate your idea in one page, and close the deal quickly. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment.

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Clinton Versus Trump: Who’s Stronger on Innovation?

Xconomy

It’s a bedrock assumption in American economic policy that innovation and entrepreneurship drive job growth and lead to greater productivity, efficiency, consumer choice, and wealth. Or maybe it’s healthier in the long run when the government imposes more progressive taxation and puts the funds into education, social programs, and R&D.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

socalTECH

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. They have more knowledge of what a student's life is about, which is much better than a one page resume.

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Business 2013 - Optimism, But Check Your Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

Another approach is to diversify and broaden the product lines and services. My take on all this is that entrepreneurs see some light at the end of the tunnel, and the light is no longer a freight train heading straight at them. Visit [link] to take a look at the reinvented Facebook Page: Well Sourced by Visa Business.

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How A Pivot Turned Vantage Media Into A $100M Plus Business

socalTECH

However, if you talk to a lot of people about who Vantage Media is, a lot of them think we''re still an agency, specifically focused on for-profit education marketing. Real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on users in a particular market, who are likely to be purchasing that company''s product.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

InfoChachkie

As described in Advice For Emerging Entrepreneurs , let the BDC train you and grant you opportunities to make mistakes on their time, on their dime. Such mini-ventures, as described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits , will not only educate you, but will reduce your risk when you exit the Herd. Keep your write-ups to a single page.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. Unlike those IM clients with a small (ineffective) footprint, Meebo experience is a website and a full page screen. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford? I totally agree.

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