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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. This includes not only commercial airlines, but also cargo planes and military aircraft. The Aviation Market. per year over the same period.

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The Secret Sauce to a Superior Customer Experience

Rick Conlow

I travel often. When I got to my hotel, the clerk seemed annoyed with me. Websites that are unresponsive or marketed products that are unavailable. Delta Airlines employees never seem to be happy. A superior customer experience is rare. The poor examples outnumber the good. The plane was late, and the attendants crabby.

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Staying Safe Is the Motto of the Day, Week, Month

Martinka Consulting

I do know the virus has a longer than normal life of being alive, spreads super-fast through our easily traveled and networked world, and that’s what’s concerning people So, let’s cover what it’s doing to people like you and me, i.e. business owners and executives. A good friend owns a video production company.

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Hamilton’s $849 Tickets Are Priced Too Low

Harvard Business

Take a cue from other sellers of perishable products with fixed capacities — industries such as airlines, hotels, and car rentals — and employ dynamic pricing. Think of each performance as an individual airline flight — prices are optimized for each show time.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. Need travel information or services? Take a company like Airbnb.

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The Data-Driven Case for Vacation

Harvard Business

Travel Association to more clearly understand the relationship between well-being and taking time off from work. Travel Association and Project: Time Off, presents a high-definition picture of how overwork affects our success rates and well-being. Over the past three years, we have partnered with the U.S. days of vacation in 2015.

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