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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Will it work?

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Five Steps to Fixing Bad Apps

Harvard Business Review

Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages. In each stage, they ask themselves what gaps need to be filled. Stage 1: Is there a recognition gap? Stage 2: Is there a brand-personalization gap?

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

What I do in that time sets the stage for the day I will have. Your leadership is like a bank account. Your leadership is like a bank account – A healthy leadership tip from @cnieuwhof Click To Tweet. Dan Miller of 48 Days. Nothing has contributed more to my success than my reverence for the first 90 minutes of every day.

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Eight Brilliant Minds on the Future of Online Education

Harvard Business Review

The first stage is when it does what was being done before but better. Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. Bill Gates. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Founder Grameen Bank. While at Davos, I was fortunate to attend an amazing panel — my favorite of the conference — with a murderer's row of speakers.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. Pay your writers and creative team well.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.