Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. They can’t shop in the mall – where there’s all teen and mature stores. On June 2 nd , 2004, we opened. I noticed there was a big demographic missing for women between 35-55.

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Building Personal Strength

JUNE 4, 2012

2004) recommends that the victim try ignoring verbal harassment. Bullies experience the same hormone surge, emotional reactions and aggressiveness that other kids do at that age, but they're maturing physically faster, and they often feel resentment and anger in their personal lives. David Walsh, author of Why Do They Act That Way?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In 2010 no one was interested in the Swedish car maker Volvo—except Geely, a low-end Chinese car maker that realized it could enter the middle and higher-end markets and increase its margins by acquiring Volvo’s technology and brand (renowned for safety). Access to mature global markets. Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Consolidation is a natural and well-reasoned practice for maturing industries. By the time their success was worth noticing, in 2004, HP and Dell decided to dabble in devices. In 2010 the game was over. But what would any reasonable person have done? The PC industry was no longer young but still thriving, why not consolidate?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Since then its stock has more than doubled. billion in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” During the volcanic ash crisis of 2010, what it offered wasn’t prize-winning stories about the roots of the eruption or its health implications, but an app (Hitchhiker’s Central) that allowed readers to share travel plans and offer rides to each other.

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