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A Critical, Yet Often Overlooked, Investment in Company Culture

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Dave is a co-founder and partner at Fathom , a strategy and creative consultancy based in Connecticut. Celebration can be a powerful force in creating a thriving culture, retaining talented employees, and in growing your business. The post A Critical, Yet Often Overlooked, Investment in Company Culture appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Splendid Spoon stirs its strategy to get you to love plant-based foods

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Nicole Centeno founded the company in 2013. In addition to focusing on its team, next up for the company is to look at its strategy development and go-to-market strategy for trial opportunities for supplements, other foods and different channels beyond direct-to-consumer. “We Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

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Share the mindset of success in EO Accelerator

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2013, Allen went into business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Accelerator programme’s culture is based on three key components: Strict confidentiality: EOA participants share sensitive information such as financials , strategies and weaknesses. “When performance is measured, performance improves.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

WHEN OUR INDUSTRY CHANGED — THE ERA OF THE UNICORN Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures first coined the term Unicorn in 2013, ironically to signal that very few companies ever achieved a $1 billion valuation. In the past 7 years we built cultures of quick money, instant wealth and valuations for valuations sake. And it changed the culture.

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Pangyo Techno Valley Surfaces as Korea’s R&D Epicenter with an Advanced Industrial Cluster

AsiaTechDaily

Companies in the 1st Pangyo Techno Valley and the 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley (Image = Besucses) A decade ago, in November 2013, Gyeonggi-do initiated the ‘Industry-Academy Research Center’ (currently known as Pangyo Techno Valley Startup Campus), an R&D center in Pangyo Techno Valley.

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4 keys to international expansion

TechCrunch

Adopt a “hire slow, fire fast” mentality for your expansion strategy. Our team at Heartcore Capital use the following framework and learnings to guide internationalization strategies for our portfolio companies. Don’t be afraid to pull the plug if things don’t work out. Complexities and costs will multiply.

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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. It was their typical strategy: create a similar service and sell it to the “original” American company. a service called Alando?—?and In some way, yes.