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Everything You Need To Know About Starting A Construction Company

Strategy Driven

Make sure that you take your time when selecting the right people for the job – after all, they will be responsible for the success or failure of your construction company. Market Your Business: Now that everything is set up and running smoothly, it’s time to market your business. Keep Growing.

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Here Are Some Tips On Getting Started:

Strategy Driven

Make sure that you take your time when selecting the right people for the job – after all, they will be responsible for the success or failure of your construction company. Market Your Business: Now that everything is set up and running smoothly, it’s time to market your business. Keep Growing.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

Through "listening" of social media, they were able to identify a need for a new type of hair product because consumers online (on Twitter, Facebook, forums) were complaining about having to mix hair wax with oil to get the texture they desire. Technology + Methodology. Robust + Comprehensive Insights.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. For example, when IBM unleashed the cognitive technology Watson, it did not try to create all the applications if the technology itself. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

As a reminder, the dot-com crash was preceded by the dot-com bubble, a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO) to March 2000 when there was massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, including in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).