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Research: Writing a Business Plan Makes Your Startup More Likely to Succeed

Harvard Business

” It is a school of thought now fashionable in entrepreneurship circles. This includes everything from past entrepreneurial experience to the need for external finance and the urge to grow the business or to innovate. Better-financed startups are more likely to succeed. So are more experienced entrepreneurs.

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There Is No Title that Says “C-Suite” or “VITO”

Alan Weiss

It’s become fashionable to talk about “Vito” (Very Important Top Officer) in marketing, thought it sound more like a mob leader to me. People also throw around “C-suite” as if it denotes some exclusive gathering areas of executives, like ancient pterodactyls’ mating grounds.

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Companies Used to Share How Each Dollar of Revenue Was Spent

Harvard Business

Why these disclosures went out of fashion — and how to bring them back.

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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Fashions, fads, trends, role models, and influential personalities. Education levels.

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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business

” We would do well to begin fashioning our own blueprint aimed at this end, starting with common sense steps focused on the development of multigenerational ties. The initiative aims, among other priorities, “to build a cohesive society with inter-generational harmony.”

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business

Most workers are still grabbing extra hours the old-fashioned way — tending bar or temp work on the side — not by being digitally summoned. And on-demand services where you get your next gig from an app like Lyft or Task Rabbit represent an even smaller percentage of gig workers. 3: Gig is better.

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Greece 10-Year Bond Yield Soars to 9% as Prime Minister's Gambit Explodes; Snap Elections Likely, and Opposition Syriza Would Win

MishTalk

Yet Mr Samaras’s plan to make a clean exit from an EU rescue programme and cut short a companion lifeline from the International Monetary Fund appears to be backfiring in dramatic fashion.

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