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14 Years In, What I’ve Learned.

Rich Gee Group

I put in the late hours and traveled across the globe. Suggested reading: Small Business Finance for the Busy Entrepreneur: Blueprint for Building a Solid, Profitable Business Fail often, fail forward. A huge company in CT wanted to license my entire sales training platform, I presented it and got to the top.

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21 Home-Based Business Ideas & Tips for Starting a Business from Home

Miles Anthony Smith

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is. Travel Costs​ Depending on the nature of your business you could be traveling frequently. Keep that receipt, too!

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What Should an Apple Car Be?

Harvard Business Review

A teenager old enough to drive is twice as likely to have a smartphone as they are a driver’s license. One way to appeal to this demographic (and to the parents who often finance young drivers’ transportation) is to focus on safety. And if you can put a living room on wheels, what else could you put on wheels? Or a kitchen?

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The 4 Types of Cities and How to Prepare Them for the Future

Harvard Business Review

Slow demographic growth in developed economies creates a zero-sum situation (which is part of why the licensed cabs vs Uber/Lyft contest is so heated). Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

And it’s interesting to note that although the party had threatened to check the licenses of the rich “entrepreneurs” who own the key media, they shelved the pledge a few weeks into their administration—after which media coverage of the party became broadly supportive (at least until the crisis peaked).

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

Rather than do the conceptually hard and convention-challenging reorganizations of systems and finances required to truly transform care, it is easier to suggest tweaking the system and encouraging patients to use more primary care — and let primary care take it from there. A Way Forward. Engaging patients in their own care.

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. To collect the check she would have needed to travel to a government office. Then, of course, she would have needed to travel again to a bank to cash the check.

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