Reimar Articles & Insights
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Useless Friday Fact
The entire internet could be printed off on 136,000,000,000 sheets of paper (yes 136B). http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-paper-would-it-take-to-print-the-internet-2015-4
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Is It Time To Kill Start-Up Culture?
Is It Time to Kill “Start-Up” Culture? Over the last decade, start-up initiatives rule the landscape. From high tech incubators to national initiatives and small business boot camps, the chorus reigns loud and clear: we need to encourage more startups. Small business, the saviour of economic woe, freer of the labour oppressed and solution to…
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How To Be an Entrepreneur: Seek out Opportunity
I want to confess: I have a secret. One of the things I do in my spare time is peruse Craigs List for enjoyment. You can see humanity at its most vulnerable. It really is a entertaining to read. Craigslist is also a great place to start your entrepreneurial journey. You can pick up odd…
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Why Did You Become an Entrepreneur?
What Made You Decide to start your own Small Business? I often get asked why I became an entrepreneur? Why did I start my own company? I could answer that I grew up in an entrepreneurial home, with a father who ran his own business for years. I could answer, that the change agent in me did…
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Business in a Slump? It’s time to Growth Plan
Develop A Business Growth Plan It seems like all we do is plan. We write business plans, strategic plans, marketing plans, and disaster recovery plans. We plan our businesses to death. In the early days of your business, your need to plan less. Personally, I am a planner by nature. Planning is how I organize…
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Do You Love What You Do?
Do You Really Love Your Business? One of the things I never learnt in school was how to be a psychologist. Over the years, I took psychology courses, but with a graduate and a professional designation, neither of which are in psychology, I am very ill equipped to deal with psychological issues or offer any…
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What Value does your Incubator add?
What is the Value-add of Incubators? Over the last decade, incubators have been popping up all over the country. There are economic development incubators, venture capital incubators and industry specific. On the tech side, Accelerators are the newest label to be put onto incubators. Despite all of this growth, one question that seldom appears to…
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The Geography of Funding Inequality.
Around the country, incubators are popping up. Tech incubators, health incubators, manufacturing incubators. Venture capitalists continue to create to new opportunities to attract the next big tech company and angel investors sit poised, ready to be mentors and investors to new entrepreneurs. Every start-up at some point in their existence, considers chasing venture capital. The…
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5 Trends Why SME’s will Continue to Grow.
In the wake of massive lay-offs in the manufacturing sector, downsizing across all industries and renewed vows to create sustainability, SME’s are a powerful way to counter large Corporations and create REAL, SUSTAINABLE, solutions. Here are 5 Trends why we think SME’s will grow in the future….. 1. Generation Y– brought up to value their…
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Innovation and the Aging Population
There is a lot written these days about innovation, competitiveness and intellectual capital. I hear the banter of politicians, the monologues from leading Venture Capitalists and Investment firms, and I sit back and think about how they have it all wrong. Our society is aging. David Foot in his ground-breaking work, “Boom, Bust and Echo”…
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