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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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7 Ways to Keep Your Customers Begging for More

Startup Professionals Musings

Entrepreneurs don’t realize that this burden is actually costing them over $200 billion in repeat sales, according to a recent study by the W. The report also indicates that customer problem experiences continue to increase, up four percent to 54 percent since the last study. Carey School of Business.

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Future of The Cloud is Bright | Just Ask the Market

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Providers make their pricing model transparent and easily available on the web, so it’s simple to calculate the cost savings of the cloud. An IDC study commissioned on behalf of Microsoft has shown that cloud computing will be responsible for creating nearly 14 million new jobs between 2011 and 2015.

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Interview with Kevin Strong, FutureDash

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Google is doing a web presentment tool, taking data from utility companies. We're outsourcing lots of development, and our developers are all around the world in low cost locations. Google has its own home energy monitoring project, PowerMeter - is this competitive or different? Kevin Strong: This is really different.

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How Starting A Business Fits Into Every Career Today

Startup Professionals Musings

With the cost of starting an online business today at an all-time low, I can’t imagine why everyone doesn’t have a web site and an LLC to mitigate liability and minimize taxes. Learn more about business by doing versus studying. New tools make it easy create your own web site, and manage accounting.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Now study the event organizer. I have the option to upload that data into my CRM. What are their interests?

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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