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I Want to Start My Own Business But How?

Strategy Driven

Becoming an entrepreneur is a great wait to gain financial independence and express your creative side. Note that you’ll have some one-time costs like purchasing equipment, getting licenses and permits, as well as doing market research and branding. After all, everyone deserves a chance to do something they love.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul.

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Find the Unicorns to Help Your Business Excel

Skip Prichard

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. This is true in boom times and recessions, from organizations being complacent through multiple successes, to newcomers coming in to take over the market.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. Its even 100% free!

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Avoiding the Soft "Yes"

Harvard Business Review

The project team had spent the past six months designing a new strategy to accelerate growth in a critical emerging market for a multibillion-dollar multinational. You almost always can find money in someone''s budget, or find creative ways around financial constraints to progress a new idea. Be specific.

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Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop

Harvard Business Review

An estimated 250 funds are actively raising capital in a market that the Global Impact Investing Network estimates at $25 billion. As the sector grows through this period of creative destruction, models that don’t work will die out, models that survive will attract copycats, operating costs will go down, and winners will rise to the top.

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What to Do If You Already Hate Your New Job

Harvard Business Review

But if you are already fantasizing about exit strategies after only a few weeks, don’t ignore those signs. As a marketing and special events coordinator for an outdoor sports company in the Bay Area, she’d worked hard for months to prove herself worthy of a promotion. There was no room to be creative,” she says. “I