The race to construct an online insurance exchange by Oct. 1 spurred the Obama administration to use an expedited bidding system that limited its choice of a builder to just four companies, including CGI Group Inc.
Eighteen months elapsed after pa ...
Posted Tuesday, November 18th 2014 at 6:04PM
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Over the past two decades, the citizen sector has discovered what the business sector learned long ago: There is nothing as powerful as a new idea in the hands of a first-class entrepreneur.
Social entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative sol ...
Posted Wednesday, May 7th 2014 at 10:32PM
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“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being an entrepreneur is a demanding profession. Having experienced the entrepreneurial world for my entire professional career, I’ve learned that achieving a work-life balance i ...
Posted Wednesday, May 7th 2014 at 6:48PM
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Listen closely. There's a new conversation under way across America that may well change your future. If you work for Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) or General Electric Co. (GE), you already know what's going on. If you don't, you might want to stop what ...
Posted Wednesday, May 7th 2014 at 10:14AM
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Turning their back on the American Dream has proven to be a fortuitous decision for a number of technology entrepreneurs who are crafting multimillion-dollar businesses within a few years of returning to India. Mostly in their early thirties, these h ...
Posted Monday, May 5th 2014 at 6:23PM
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If you want to be perfectly on trend in 2014, you might consider launching a Bitcoin-related startup in Austin. If you do, make sure you bring on plenty of executive-lady power, don't even think about taking your startup public, and be sure you have ...
Posted Thursday, May 1st 2014 at 6:07PM
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So you've come up with an idea for a business? Congratulations! Now you need startup financing - that initial infusion of money needed to turn the idea into something tangible. And that's where it becomes tricky.
When you are just starting out, yo ...
Posted Thursday, May 1st 2014 at 2:11PM
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http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-07-09/how-failure-breeds-success
Ever heard of Choglit? How about OK Soda or Surge? Long after "New Coke" became nearly synonymous with innovation failure, these products joined Coca-Cola Co.'s (KO) graveyard ...
Posted Thursday, May 1st 2014 at 12:50PM
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By Don Schawbel, contributor
I recently spoke to Zac Bissonnette, who is a personal finance writer and multiple book author. His first book, Debt-Free U, landed him on The Today Show, Sean Hannity, The Dave Ramsey Show, The 700 Club, and the Fox New ...
Posted Thursday, May 1st 2014 at 12:37PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/business/youth-business-enterprise/10096040/young-entrepreneurs-growth.html
Article explaining the growth of young entrepreneurs in Britain due to the country's economic crisis. ...
Posted Tuesday, April 29th 2014 at 4:37PM
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There’s no magic bullet for startup success, but your team can often make-or-break it, says entrepreneur Bernd Schoner.
Schoner, who has a Ph.D. from MIT and was co-founder of RFID technologies startup ThingMagic, sold his company to Trimble Nav ...
Posted Tuesday, April 29th 2014 at 1:06PM
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http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-07-09/how-failure-breeds-success
Ever heard of Choglit? How about OK Soda or Surge? Long after "New Coke" became nearly synonymous with innovation failure, these products joined Coca-Cola Co.'s (KO) grave ...
Posted Tuesday, April 29th 2014 at 12:56PM
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2013 ended with enormous gains in the market with the Dow ending in it's largest advance since the '95 market and the S&P Closing at Record highs. The market stayed in confirmed uptrend the vast majority of the year, but it is very evidently hitting ...
Posted Saturday, February 8th 2014 at 10:29PM
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Why diversity in the workspace is important? Everybody is bragging about diversity important, but what is the real reason it is important?
On my opinion, when, say, the engineering team is diverse, comprised of people from different cultures and bac ...
Posted Sunday, February 2nd 2014 at 7:46PM
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In really quickly changing contemporary world the business patterns change so rapidly, you need to watch your competitors really closely, and adjust so really swiftly that Business Strategy becomes more like Business Tactics. It happens because with ...
Posted Monday, January 20th 2014 at 12:22PM
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Manchester United are poised to announce a world record £300million deal with American sportswear giants Nike.
The negotiations were first revealed by Charles Sale's Sports Agenda at the start of September.
And the five year-deal, which The Sun re ...
Posted Tuesday, December 17th 2013 at 9:26PM
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Facebook Inc. FB +1.26% said it would begin selling video advertisements later this week, a move that may help the social-networking giant capture a share of the annual $66.4 billion TV advertising market.
The ads will start appearing Thursday bo ...
Posted Tuesday, December 17th 2013 at 12:24PM
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By Tommaso Ebhardt May 30, 2013
The adage “Less is more” isn’t something you’d expect to hear from a horsepower-driven carmaker such as Ferrari, but that’s exactly the strategy the exotic Italian sports car brand is pursuing. Whi ...
Posted Monday, December 16th 2013 at 1:38PM
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona has signed a sponsorship deal with Intel, whose logo may never be seen despite being on the jerseys of the Spanish league champions.
The phrase "Intel Inside" will be placed on the inside front of the jersey, me ...
Posted Monday, December 16th 2013 at 12:43PM
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All eyes are on Brazil this morning as the 32-country field for this summer’s World Cup is divvied up into eight groups. The giants of sports apparel, however, have already set their brackets with deals to design and supply the uniforms of each con ...
Posted Monday, December 16th 2013 at 11:47AM
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Next time you start to feel like everything that can be sold will be sold, just remember that most soccer clubs in the world do not sell the underside of their jerseys to advertisers. Most of the time, when a player lifts up his shirt to celebrate a ...
Posted Sunday, December 15th 2013 at 8:47PM
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SENDAI, Japan — The contestants roll their shoulders and lick their lips. The audience holds its breath. At the center of attention on stage at an expansive convention hall: a single telephone.
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Posted Saturday, December 14th 2013 at 9:00PM
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“Going forward with a mission-critical, best-in-class, industry-standard suite of e-business solutions for the 21st century B2B value-added growth-at-any-price-Dow 36,000 wakka wakka cha-ching CLEC fiber.”
That’s pretty much how you answered ...
Posted Saturday, December 14th 2013 at 12:07PM
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