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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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And contrary to popular belief, an exit strategy does in fact align interests, incentives and goals regarding growth and profitability because it defines targets aimed toward business growth. “A If the goal is to get acquired by a venture capital, intellectual property, personnel and other assets might be more valuable. Pace yourself.

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

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Robbins urges business owners to identify their true purpose and goals by understanding their business’s position in its life cycle. The entrepreneurial trap is getting into business, having all these great goals and dreams, but not knowing how to run it,” he says. Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart.”

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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Jewel’s mental health organization: Inspiring Children Foundation In 2002, after many years of putting what she learned to action, Jewel co-founded the Inspiring Children Foundation , which provides mental health programming to youth whose financial circumstances are a barrier to access. Because, unless my behavior changed, it didn’t matter.

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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

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When your company and livelihood are at stake, how do you keep the process fair, with minimal drama, and preserve the friendship ? Instead, be clear about your objective during the process. If the goal is to sell the business at a profit , for example, you cannot afford to be mired in anger with your co-founder.

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How Badly Do You Want the Life You Dream About?

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Therefore, before you can find the courage to risk losing something, you have to be crystal clear about what it is you want to gain in the process. Fourteen years later, they have raised nearly $18 million to fund their goal of eradicating extreme poverty. Now, I am living my calling in ways I was unable to imagine in 2002.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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But he made diversity in the workplace a strategic initiative , laid down goals and linked those goals to manager pay. Not only did the PWD task force ensure compliance, they “established a worldwide accessibility project office” in 2002 to ensure all products and services were made accessible.

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Product/Program Promotion Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned Expert Interview

Stephanie LH Calahan

Anyone that has ever launched a program or product knows that the entire process is kind of like running a race. Late in October I'm launching the 30-Day Challenge to Get it Done, a group and e-learning program that guarantees success with a strongly desired goal. From 2002 - 2006 she co-owned and built the largest Long Island, NY.

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