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Sources: Active Network In Major Layoff

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San Diego-based sports registration service Active Network has laid of over 100 people, according to sources near the company. Active Network has been contacted, but has not yet responded to queries about the layoff. active network layoff jobs employment private equity texas websense omnitracs' READ MORE>>.

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Culture Counts in Every Business, Large or Small

Startup Professionals Musings

Costs for entry and for modernization are high. Competition is high, profitability is low, especially low when compared with some of the new, hot industries such as those burgeoning in the high-tech arenas. In terms of analysts such as Michael Porter of Harvard, the bargaining power of buyers, the customer, is high.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion, Not A Choice

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In your own startup, you might experience lean times, but you never will be crushed in a stampede, like a middle-manager in a corporate layoff. When high-tech businesses, founded by appropriately educated entrepreneurs who received money from sophisticated investors are considered, the survival rates are even more encouraging.

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