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The Benefits of Starting a Business During a Recession

StartupNation

Induced by a pandemic and unprecedented state responses, it is even worse than the last international period of economic decline witnessed in 2008. During the period of economic turbulence in 2008, I formed my technology consultancy firm, ROCK. For most, 2008 was a time to avoid risk. Client first.

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Building Business Community: Focus on Cooperation, Not Competition

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Competition became an integral part of society due to historical, cultural, and other factors. At other times, they just copy someone else’s strategy and try to implement it. For instance, in 2008, UPS agreed to ship DHL’s packages (because DHL couldn’t do it at the time and asked a competitor for help).

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20 Women Entrepreneurs Changing Their Industries (and the World)

Entrepreneurs' Organization

What would happen if companies offered flexibility to their employees, backed by data and scalable strategies? A classically trained pastry chef, Christina Tosi spent years in New York City restaurants before founding Milk Bar in 2008. A pop culture hobby transformed into Lisa Sugar ’s sensationally popular media company, POPSUGAR.

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Birdzeye’s Norlock is Helping Minority Owned Businesses Gain Equal Access to North American Retail…

Jason Malki

He specializes in Identifying new lucrative markets, implementing and developing creative strategies, and fun-damental relationship building which have been pivotal in launching new products and guiding companies toward new revenue heights. While managing Sales + Strategy over the last 5.5 global revenue.

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The Benefits of Starting a Business During a Recession

StartupNation

Induced by a pandemic and unprecedented state responses, it is even worse than the last international period of economic decline witnessed in 2008. During the period of economic turbulence in 2008, I formed my technology consultancy firm, ROCK. For most, 2008 was a time to avoid risk. Client first.

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How I built a talent-first mortgage bank to win the hearts of employees and veterans

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Having expertise in VA loans allows our loan officers to be advisors and consultants rather than salespeople just selling a mortgage. In mid-2019, we hired Evan Kidwell, initially as Vice President of Strategy. Evan developed a three-part hiring process to ensure that we identify the right talent fit for our culture.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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