nailing a solution, nailing a go to market strategy, nailing a business model, and ultimately scaling successfully. The old, traditional entrepreneurial model The Nail It Then Scale It entrepreneurial model Nail the Customer Pain Nailing the pain is the initial step which works on validating “good ideas” through letting potential customers, field experts, and experiments determine whether people actually are looking to have their “pains” solved. Products are too often conceived as solutions
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MIT Portugal Program on Sustainable Energy Systems – Energy, Environment and Sustainability, 2011-2012 1 ENERGY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Cristina I. F. Andrade FEUP University of Porto Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n 4200-465, Porto, Portugal. Phone: +351225081895, Fax: +351225081503 Summary: In this paper it's done an approach of the different kind of concerns of developing and developed countries to lead to sustainable development. It has a first chapter about the roles for development
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companies to use sustainable concepts as core business drivers For decades, many companies have typically responded to sustainability challenges by pursuing incremental operational improvements. But we are beginning to see an interesting new trend – businesses using sustainability as a tactic for long-term offense, rather than just short-term defence. Despite the uncertain economic outlook, leading international companies across diverse sectors are investing heavily in sustainable products and services
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Although recycling is great (and everyone should be doing it)….what really needs to happen to create a more sustainable society, is for us to reduce the amount of materials that we produce in the first place. There is a pyramid (like the Food Pyramid) (Environmental Science 8th edition, Daniel D. Chiras, 2009, Jones and Bartlett, Publishers Chapter 23 “Hazardous and Solid Wastes: Sustainable Solutions) for solid waste management and it goes like this: Reduction (the top of the pyramid) - not producing
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Assignment Barbara Figiel Instructor: Rodger University of Phoenix 2 | | | | | | | | | | | Green Marketing Principles1. Be CredibleCredibility is essential for successful green marketing. You have to implement sustainable business practices before promoting green products and services or the public will perceive you as cynically taking advantage of environmental concerns.2. Make Specific ClaimsPeople understand the cost and difficulty in making a product or service
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Feasibility Study (Mercure Resort Sanur) purposely serves as a business improvement proposal for PT Synergy Hospitality Solutions Bali’s client, Mercure Resort Sanur. A 26-year-old hotel franchise, Mercure Resort Sanur is the only Accor’s portfolio along coastal Sanur village with five hectares of lush tropical gardens. Coming in a strategic improvement project, PT Synergy Hospitality Solutions Bali is dedicated to
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misunderstood and expanded; therefore the tourism activities lead great pressure to the environment. On the other hand, it is urgent to pop up an alert to people towards those issues and scientifically guild them to change their behavior to choose the sustainable
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Diversification of Income Resource in Saudi Arabia as Result Decrease Oil Price Names Institutional Affiliation Abstract The main objective of this paper is to study the idea of diversification of the income resource of Saudi Arabia due to the effects of the instability in the oil market. Saudi Arabia as a country has developed due to its oil source which makes it the kingpin in the world oil market. Approximately 85% of the country revenue is earned from the oil economic sector. This is a
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Research on Humanities and Social Sciences ISSN (Paper)2224-5766 ISSN (Online)2225-0484 (Online) Vol.4, No.9, 2014 www.iiste.org Assessing the Effects of Streetism on the Livelihood of Street Children: A Case Study of Kumasi (in Ghana). AWATEY, Samuel* Development Planning Officer, Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, Ghana. * E-mail of the corresponding author: profdealfas@yahoo.com Abstract This study employed the livelihood approach to examine the effects of streetism on the livelihoods
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companies to use sustainable concepts as core business drivers For decades, many companies have typically responded to sustainability challenges by pursuing incremental operational improvements. But we are beginning to see an interesting new trend – businesses using sustainability as a tactic for long-term offense, rather than just short-term defence. Despite the uncertain economic outlook, leading international companies across diverse sectors are investing heavily in sustainable products and services
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