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Business Model Scalability: Internal vs External

The BMI Lab Blog

When I co-founded the online ebook platform PaperC back in 2008, I made an interesting discovery. like Amazon starting with books, and then expanding to other industries). Always think about both sides When looking back at PaperC – the digital platform for textbooks, that I co-founded in 2008, the internal scalability was there.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

The two primary methodologies organisations, analysts and Wall Street use to measure profitability are the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Rate of Return on Net Assets (RONA) because by describing profitability as ratios it allows us to neutralise differences and compare the profitability between different industries.

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. While hackathons originally revolved around software coding, their usefulness has now extended well beyond this domain. Its origins?

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How to Run the Ultimate Corporate Hackathon

Qmarkets

He continues to describe the hackathon format as one of “decentralized, disintermediated, distributed computer programming [that] proves an industry standard for software development.”. While hackathons originally revolved around software coding, their usefulness has now extended well beyond this domain. Its origins?