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Decoding and learning from a business failure

Berkonomics

Any business can use more money. Add the economic environment to the mix of reasons for failure, including jolts such as the Great Recession of 2007-8 or COVID’s devastation to travel, retail and other personal experience-based businesses. Failure as an opportunity? So, consider a failure as an opportunity.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities.

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4 Tips for Reaching Productivity Nirvana in 2016

Entrepreneurs' Organization

That was the goal of The 4-Hour Chef — to teach this toolkit using detailed examples. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. Think it takes a lifetime to learn a language?

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money.

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Making sense of Klarna

TechCrunch

We also learn how, under his watch and as the company began to scale, Klarna missed the next big opportunity in fintech, instead being usurped by Adyen and Stripe. “If I am buying some items and feel a bit unsafe about the merchant I’m using, if there’s a credit card, I don’t feel like I’m risking my money.

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OneNav locates $21M from GV to map our transition to the next generation of GPS

TechCrunch

GPS is one of those science fiction technologies whose use is effortless for the end user and endlessly challenging for the engineers who design it. Eschewing the hybrid chip model of mixing old signals with new, it wants one chip monitoring the singular band of L5 signals to drive cost and power savings for devices.

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