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Getting Out of a Timeshare Contract Is Not Exactly Smooth Sailing

Strategy Driven

Timeshare contracts are meticulously crafted legal documents that are often biased in favor of the developer or management company. The Lack of a Resale Market Can Be a Significant Obstacle Unlike traditional real estate, some timeshares lack a robust resale market. These verbal assurances are rarely legally binding.

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How can I start my own business?

Strategy Driven

The businesses that succeed today are all meeting the needs of the customers in the market. If your why is focused on a need in the market Z, your business will be larger than the business that is designed to meet a personal need. And if you get hold of that idea, start hiring a dedicated team of developers to give your idea a shape.

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Investing in Mortgage Foreclosures

Strategy Driven

For investors to succeed in the foreclosure (FCL) market, they should study over time the strategies and tactics adopted by other successful investors. They allocate their time and resources into making appropriate market contacts in order to create a competitive advantage over the myriad of other market participants.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul.

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Find the Unicorns to Help Your Business Excel

Skip Prichard

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. This is true in boom times and recessions, from organizations being complacent through multiple successes, to newcomers coming in to take over the market.

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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted to master developing microcontroller-based systems, but had never had the opportunity in practice, because no company there offered it. So, at the end of the academic session, I developed a business plan and sent copies to potential investors in the U.S. As the first year of my Ph.D.

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Time to Sell Your Business? An ESOP May Be the Answer

Strategy Driven

These companies are often founded to capitalize on a perceived market opportunity and grow over time until eventually the owner has a healthy, and profitable company. However, owners often assume that an exit will be as simple as selling the company. Because large exit sales are often in the news.

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