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Steve Ballmer’s 3 Tips for Start Ups

Post author By Tom Spencer
Post date March 4, 2014
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Ideas matter, stick with it, and figure out the right measure of success (Source: Youtube) STEVE Ballmer spoke today at Oxford’s Said Business School, the world’s leading business community creating ideas with global impact. A few hours later, he spoke at the Oxford Union, the world’s most prestigious debating society. We were fortunate to attend the […]

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Economics

Balancing the Scale

Scale improves productivity but also increases bureaucracy Scale can help a company to produce more output at lower average costs. However, production at scale also leads to unhelpful bureaucracy. As production rises, more employees are needed and executives implement more rules to keep things under control. Increasing production tends to lead to higher cash flows, and managers […]

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