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Customer Concentration

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How many customers account for 80% of your sales? Customer concentration had become an ever-bigger problem as borrowing increased. Significant Findings and Recommendations: Reduce Customer Concentration. Work with existing manufacturers to identify other products that are not imported to the U.S. Rank your customer base.

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Why Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution

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Thought of then as an April Fool’s joke, these Wi-Fi enabled plastic buttons have since evolved to become a convenient way to replenish more than 350 consumables across multiple grocery categories – now including third-party manufacturers that want to integrate the capability into their products. The Battle for the (First) Basket.

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

Barry Ritholtz

I had never taken an accounting or a finance class. 00:16:05 [Speaker Changed] We set up a co CIO model to deal with that very issue so that we could attract the best talent, leverage the skills and capabilities of Carl and myself, allowing us to have more time both to invest. 00:22:29 [Speaker Changed] So less concentrated exposure.

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Amazon’s Retail Swiss Army Knife

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The Swiss Army knife’s manufacturing process is said to be so meticulous that only one in 10,000 knives is ever returned. Department of Labor, retail employment remains in a deep funk, accounting for only 2.8 Brands will develop one over time as Amazon hones its manufacturing capabilities and becomes a private-label competitor.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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But that means if you’re in a company that, at the end of the day, manufactures product, the people in those groups tend to be people that move a lot of the product because that’s the business of the company. You want to be…I think you said you want to be at least the average of the people that you’re surrounded with.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

So if it’s, for example, a strategy tracking a Nasdaq Index, or an S&P, or a MSCI, typically, you leverage an index that is already available through the index providers. I mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. So I think many of these car manufacturers can see the writing on the wall.

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Why It’s Time To Shut Down Cryptocurrencies

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Out the investor went, proudly showing the world the newest innovation in clothing design and manufacturing all his own. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. He leveraged existing infrastructure and built on top of it. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, even in the land of bitcoin.