Starting a business

Integrated Operations Management

It’s not only the big businesses that need to keep their act together. Smaller businesses have to adopt the same principles, but need a different style of system to do that with. Efficient operations management is vital for any business. Ultimately every entrepreneur or company has to do their thing producing the maximum customer value [...]

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Seth’s Blog: The modern business plan

Making a business plan make sense is more challenging than most might think- at least until they write one and try to persuade other people with it. It’s almost impossible to write a business plan which anybody so inclined can ridicule. And the less they know of the subject, the easier it is to do. [...]

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Seth’s Blog: 16 questions for free agents

Starting a business

What’s in your value proposition? Can you explain in clear terms what you’ll do (and what you won’t do) and how it benefits you? Can you explain in terms your customer will understand why people choose you over the competition and how they’re better off, because they did? Here’s a list of questions entrepreneurs or [...]

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Planning for Success Starting a Business

Starting a business

Challenges involved in starting a business are many, varied and hard to grasp. Like a bar of wet soap, any startup challenge will slide away as soon as we think it’s under control. Entrepreneurs thinking of starting a business need courage, tenacity and a good slice of luck if the idea is to show even [...]

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Learning Business Lessons from the Golf Caddie

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Business lessons from golf caddies sounds hard to believe. Popularly seen as roguish, itinerant, irresponsible journeymen the golf caddie doesn’t come naturally to mind as a font of business acumen. Until you’ve seen both sides of the coin, that is. Through my career I’ve sold everything from outsourcing to debt collection, and from mainframes to [...]

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Difference Between Employee, Contractor and Contract

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What’s the difference between a contract of employment, a contract to supply services on demand and a contract for supply? This is a particularly relevant question for us because we’re embroiled in such an argument ourselves right now. In another business we have a contract for supply but the other party seems to think it’s [...]

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Essential Advice for Start Ups

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Nothing I’ve ever seen comes close to the advice given here by Frank Levison on what’s important starting a business, and what isn’t. Debunking most of the myths, Frank makes us focus on that which adds value to the business and understand the simplest of rules which build a platform for success. The one thing [...]

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Sales Skills for Reluctant Rainmakers

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Sales skills were what Gareth needed, but he didn’t identify that’s what was missing until too late. No matter how skilful or experienced in a speciality the new business owner needs some basic sales skills to get them started on the right track. The biggest single demographic starting up their own business is the fugitive [...]

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Announcing Clinical Research Hub | Avantrasara

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Clinical Research Hub Announcement Avantrasara is pleased to pre-announce it’s new Clinical Research Hub – an on-line data warehouse complemented by a range of data collection, analysis and management tools. Access to the services will be limited to accredited clinical researchers working in healthcare or academia. Highlights Researchers will use leading edge data management services [...]

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