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Where your company is headquartered makes a big difference to your bottom line

Strategy Driven

Where a business is headquartered can make a huge difference in the skill level of your employees, raising capital and attracting customers. Real estate is unaffordable for many, competition for talent and investment is fierce, and high state and local taxes and labor costs quickly consume whatever capital startups have secured.

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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career

Harvard Business Review

And once they know what they want, how can they convince hiring managers that their skills will translate — especially if they’re not quite sure they will? He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. Today, she’s a VP and General Manager for a prominent Fortune 500 corporation.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Jeffrey, I’m an independent commercial real estate lender and commercial real estate mortgage broker. ” All the people you’re talking to in the real estate business only want to get a deal done. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Best regards, Jeffrey.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Real estate investors will have strong incentives to respond to these forecasts. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin.”

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The “Four P’s” of Marketing a Law Firm Online

Strategy Driven

Often, an attorney will get a job out of law school, become highly skilled in one area of law, then go out on her own to open a solo practice without looking first to see if the local market is saturated. Frank at Sagapixel told me about a conversation he had with Eric Diaz, a prominent real estate attorney in Philadelphia.

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Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?

Harvard Business Review

There is a possible consolation prize: perhaps these kids can parlay their programming skill into jobs at Facebook or Google. Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. For instance, real estate site Zillow has 812 employees, and travel site Kayak has only 205. since 2000.