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How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Although you may have ambitions to work for yourself and be your own boss, it can be extremely difficult to manage if you’ve had no prior experience in the business world. However, you must visualize disappointment as a constructive experience for future growth. Plan your finances. Stay ambitious. Don’t dismiss complaints.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But we now see insurers exploiting geographically refined data to more precisely estimate land parcel risk. When valuing these rebates, Re:focus relies on Risk Management Solutions’ modeling software to accurately judge how much a project reduces disaster risk.

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At Amazon, It’s All About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

For example, if you sell a service that you’ll be delivering for the next twelve months, the costs and revenues are supposed to be parceled out over those twelve months, regardless of when the cash changes hands. Which is exactly the kind of business that Jeff Bezos and his colleagues have constructed at Amazon over the past decade.

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