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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

Apart from conducting detailed market research, finding out fair clientele, performing surveys, retaining target groups, exploring SEO, and researching public data, which are obviously important factors, one must also remain very adaptable to changing situations. What will be the market where you want to get into?

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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Hence lots of the analytical, linear thinking at GM drove him to distraction; Product Planning analysts in particular: "a department composed of recycled finance types" as he calls them in the book. and those largely fixed costs were more painful and debilitating if GM shrank in the U.S. market: small and mid-car.

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