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America’s 200 Best Small Companies
No comments · Posted by Gabriel Goldenberg in Business Thinking, News
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Forbes magazine puts out an annual ranking of the best small companies in America. Most people are familiar with the Inc. 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America. The Forbes rankings are more comprehensive and take many more factors into account. Forbes also includes publicily traded companies.
I definitely [...]
Business · Company Rankings · Forbes · Inc. 500 · Major Companies · Net worth · Privately held company · United States
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The Freelance Economy
No comments · Posted by Gabriel Goldenberg in Business Thinking, Freelance, Startups
A great article from Forbes on the emerging freelance economy:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1116/careers-lisa-steinberg-labor-statistics-freelance-economy.html
This is nothing new to freelancers and companies that use their services and have been taking advantage of the Internet to come together to create a new type of labor market for years. Thomas Friedman described just such a phenomenon emerging in 2005 in his book The World Is [...]
Business · Consulting · Forbes · Freelancer · Labour economics · The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century · Thomas Friedman · World Is Flat
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MetroPCS Strategy
No comments · Posted by Gabriel Goldenberg in Business Thinking, Startups, Technology
Great Forbes article on MetroPCS strategy. Briefly, Roger Linquist (MetroPCS CEO) is positioning his company to be a cost leader in the area of digital voice transmission. He wants to commoditize cellular phone service squeezing the margins of his competitors and positioning his company to take advantage of increased consumer demand for cheaper cell phone service.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1116/technology-mobile-4G-telephony-metropcs.html
cellphone · MetroPCS · Mobile phone · Science and Technology · Telecommunications · Voice over Internet Protocol · Wireless
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Uncovering Steve Jobs’ Presentation Secrets – BusinessWeek
No comments · Posted by Gabriel Goldenberg in Business Thinking, Startups, Uncategorized
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Businessweek ran a great article on some of Steve Jobs‘ presentation tactics. While presenting like Steve Jobs will not turn your company into Apple, these tips will definitely help any entrepreneur or sales person make more effective presentations.
Uncovering Steve Jobs’ Presentation Secrets – BusinessWeek.
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To Business Plan or Not To Business Plan … Depends On Your Business
No comments · Posted by Gabriel Goldenberg in Business Thinking
Throughout entrepreneurship programs all over the country, would-be entrepreneurs are bombarded with the axiom that for a business to work you need to write a business plan first. There is very good reason for this but consideration of why this advice is recommended can help an entrepreneur in making a better decision in whether or not the [...]
Brick and mortar business · Business plan · Entrepreneur · Rule of thumb
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Your gut may not only be right, it’s also ethical
No comments · Posted by Gabriel Goldenberg in Business Thinking
A recent series of experiments conducted by Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto suggests that people with an option to treat someone fairly or to lie to a person and gain at that person’s expense choose to be more honest when instructed to trust their gut feelings instead of thinking the situation through rationally.
The [...]
Business · Economy · Financial services · Loan · Mortgage · Mortgage loan · United States · University of Toronto
