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Selling Medical Devices: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurial Breakthrough Success

Strategy Driven

You’ll need to read some journals to find out where medical trends are going and where they are currently to help you make an informed decision on what devices you may need contract manufacturing for. Find Suppliers.

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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

He then founded Crescendo Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and Catalyst, a private foundation supporting Colorado-based nonprofits and micro-lending in the developing world.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year.

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Founding a Hardware Start-Up Is Getting Easier

Harvard Business Review

Investors have long shied away from start-ups making gadgets such as wearable electronics, because of the challenges posed by manufacturing, distribution, inventory, and technical support. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups.

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It’s OK to Move Down (Yes, Down) the Value Chain

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” While we don’t suggest that companies bring such operations in-house, they can bring them closer.

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Lessons in Adaptive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Grace started out in the 1970s as a contract manufacturer of etched steel parts, such as for printers. It's a fascinating example of questioning assumptions about your business domain when under pressure, staying alert to customer needs, and being open to opportunities as they appear.

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Unglamorous Freelance Manufacturers Could Boost U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

Hospira is an advanced contract manufacturer. The United States pioneered the concept of contract manufacturing organizations in the 1980s when Japan was a fearsome economic power and Western companies were realizing they could no longer rely on the vertically integrated production philosophy that dated to Henry Ford.