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How can I start my own business?

Strategy Driven

If this is what doesn’t let you sleep peacefully, you must plan to start your own business. 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.

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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. The plan was to build my coaching business and the True Balance brand, one day at a time until I could give my two weeks notice. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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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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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Six months after that, we plan to go to public beta. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project. We are currently in closed alpha and will go into a private beta soon.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. The committee recently held a half-day retreat to develop a three-year plan for the program and set strategic priorities for 2016.