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Why the logic of focusing on growth first and worrying about profitability later is often a bad idea. Every management team that wants to build a much bigger business eventually asks itself this question: "Why don’t we focus on growth first and worry about profitability later?" Bad idea. The logic may be valid, but the strategy is often flawed
Read More »A New Tool for Comparing Health Care plans
Insurance Finder, a tool on Healthcare.gov, allows businesses to comparison shop for health insurance. The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to save small businesses time and hopefully, money. It's launched a new tool at Healthcare.gov to help find and compare health insurance plans
Read More »“4.74 Degrees” Between Any Two Facebook Users, HTC Is Building Facebook’s “Buffy” Phone, AT&T Admits Hack Attack Attempted
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Read More »To Move Your Business To A Higher Plane, Learn To Play 3-D Chess
I’m halfway around the world, in Brisbane, Australia, where, yesterday, I finished an intense two-day strategy session for the top 50 managers of a company determined to take over the world. Maybe not your world, but the world of installing large AC systems. During the strategy session, we stepped through a process of "strategic imagination" that I introduce in my next book, Outthink the Competition
Read More »The Case For Girls
Most would-be parents prefer boys, not girls.
Read More »Sweet deal! Couple finds love in Black Friday line
Trevor MacDonald and Jessie Pierfelice are getting married after meeting three years ago while waiting in line outside a Super Target in Hurst, TX on Black Friday.
Read More »Skinny patients more likely to die after surgery: Why?
Underweight patients up to 40 percent more likely to die than overweight patients 30 days after surgery
Read More »Spotify, Rdio, And MOG On Artist Payments: Don’t Blame Us
In the beginning, music industry watchers hailed subscription streaming services such as Spotify , MOG, Rdio, and Rhapsody as saviors of the industry, an alternative for listeners and labels to the tyranny of the 99-cent iTunes download. But artists weren't singing the same happy song.
Read More »Getting Schooled On Starting A Business By DonorsChoose.org’s Charles Best
"It's about being shameless and relentless and hustling for the first users and for the first partners," says Best.
Read More »Video: Fiber can cut colon cancer risk, study shows
Erica Hill and Jeff Glor talk to Dr. Holly Phillips about new research that shows three servings of whole grain fiber a day may help lower the risks of colorectal cancer.
Read More »Breast cancer screening guidelines revised in Canada
Canadian task force recommends against annual screening mammograms for women in their forties
Read More »From The Editor: The Creative Economy
.caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Photo by Benjamin Lowy There are two economies at work in the United States right now. One is traditional, entrenched, powerful, and often highly profitable
Read More »Faster, Cheaper 3D Printing
Someday, 3D printers may become as common as inkjet printers. Until then, there are affordable and easy ways to try them out.
Read More »Get Funding Without Asking
An inside look at how YCharts scored $4.75 million in funding. YCharts CEO Shawn Carpenter had a great idea when he was still at Google.
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