Note from the Authors: “Creative Entrepreneurship” was born out of the desire, want and curiosity of kbs+’s staff to understand the crazy world of entrepreneurship. “Creative Entrepreneurship” curates the perspectives of leading entrepreneurs and venture capitalists as a guide for people interested in learning more. Each writer graciously contributed their work to create a curated resource for creative entrepreneurs. This book is the teaching and inspirational aid for our kbs+ Ventures Fellows –
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Outsourcing vs. Offshoring Once e have seen the reason and downsizes about outsourcing, let’s talk about the implications it implies. Taking what Claudia has introduced, offshoring is a possible way out of outsourcing and the most controversial one. To clear your mind; the biggest difference is that while outsourcing can be (and often is) offshored, offshoring may not always involved outsourcing. Both may save company money, but only offshoring specifically means sending jobs out of the country
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Prueba 1 RR.HH. Tópico I: Introducción a la Administración de RRHH ¿Qué es? Es la coordinación de los individuos que pertenecen a la firma de manera de alinearlos para el logro de los objetivos de esta. Se encarga de: a) Del bienestar de los empleados b) Potenciar la estrategia de la empresa y respaldarla. ¿Qué es la estrategia de la firma? Es la determinación de las metas y objetivos de largo plazo de la empresa y la adopción de caminos de acción y de asignación de recursos para alcanzar
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XML, or extensible Markup Language, is a language based on web standards use by various communities and products. Similar to HyperText Markup Language, or HTML, XML is more concerned with data display than the presentation (Robbins, 2006). XML provides a unique structure that enables developers to define their own tags and attributes for elements. Defining such a unique set tags gives their intended audience data in a specific information format. Identifying difference of XML and HTML, examining
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iPhone 5 Report | | Assessing and analysing the three levels of the marketing environment | By Simona Zhelyazkova Vasileva, Student Number 201230259 | 2. Executive summary The report provides an analysis and evaluation of the three levels of the marketing environment of iPhone 5. It analyses the relationship between the influence of internal, macro and microenvironment on the product development and the potential success of iPhone 5 in the UK market. The internal environment will be
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Key Strategic Challenges facing Apple Computer C. Meyer (2011) commented in his article by saying “It’s hard to get headlines with 5% market share. When your market capitalization passes Microsoft, everyone watches. For a firm that highly values control and secrecy, Apple now stands center-stage with the flood lights shining bright.” Although many are quick to focus on a company’s weaknesses, most winners lose their step by over relying on their strengths. Apple’s success has been fueled
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Running head: THE APPLE CORPORATION The Apple Corporation Professor Contemporary Business April 2, 2012 The Apple Corporation Apple, a company established in 1976, has taken the world of technology by storm with innovative products such as: the Apple Computer, which has since evolved into the MAC computer; the iPod; a music device used by many for the viewing of pictures, videos, and downloading music, the iPhone; an industry favorite, introduced as the world’s first “smart phone”
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A New Work Ethic Describe how typical the attitudes that Sheehy reports appear to be in work environments you have experienced. I worked as a merchandise manager at Bloomingdales where the average age of the sales associates where 18 to 25 years old. At that time many of the employees regarded the work as something to do until they found real jobs, or until they graduated from college. For many of the It failed to meet the economic and professional standards a college graduates envisioned their
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A few weeks ago I found to my surprise that I'd been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I'd only applied for three. The patents aren't mine, of course. They were assigned to Viaweb, and became Yahoo's when they bought us. But the news set me thinking about the question of software patents generally. Patents are a hard problem. I've had to advise most of the startups we've funded about them, and despite years of experience I'm still not always sure I'm giving the right
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CEO not to originate from Finland. Elop was hired to change the course of Nokia and to stop the declining trend in Nokia’s global market share especially in the smart phone segment. The first major decision was to start extensive cooperation with Microsoft in February 2011. VISION AND STRATEGY Nokia’s mission is simple: Connecting People and their goal is to build great mobile products that enable billions of people worldwide to enjoy more of what life has to offer. Nokia’s challenge is to achieve
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