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How To Stay Motivated (Motivation Theories Explained)

Internal Motivation vs. External Motivation Internal motivation and external motivation are two different types of motivation that drive our behavior and actions. Internal motivation comes from within oneself and is driven by personal interests, values, and desires, whereas external motivation comes from external factors such as rewards, punishments, or social pressure. Internal motivation is often […]

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Why Airbnb Fails to Disrupt the Hotel Industry

Business / Steve Burns

Hotels have been a part of the hospitality industry for centuries and are integral to travel and tourism. Hotels offer accommodation, amenities, and services to guests for a fee. Over the years, the hotel industry has evolved, and hotels now come in different categories, including luxury, upscale, midscale, and economy. However, in recent years, the

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The Decline of Bed Bath & Beyond: What Happened?

Business / Steve Burns

The Struggle of Bed Bath & Beyond: Facing Challenges in the Retail Industry As the largest big box retail store specializing in bed and bath products in the United States, Bed Bath & Beyond has faced significant challenges over the past few years. Despite generating $12 billion in sales in 2018 and having over 1,500

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Year Over Year (YOY): What It Means, How It’s Used

Business / Steve Burns

Year Over Year (YOY) is a commonly used metric for measuring growth or decline over time. It’s used to compare the current performance of a company, industry, or economy to the same period in the previous year. In this article, we will explore the reasoning behind YOY, what it is used for, how it’s calculated,

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Business Strategy – SWOT Analysis

Business / Steve Burns

What is a SWOT Analysis? A SWOT analysis studies businesses: Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats SWOT analysis is an essential strategic planning tool that has been used for decades by businesses all over the world. Developed in the 1960s, it enables organizations to identify their internal strengths and weaknesses and external opportunities and threats. SWOT helps

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The Tragic Story of Nikola Tesla

Business, Tesla / Steve Burns

Who was Nikola Tesla? Nikola Tesla was a brilliant and innovative inventor who made significant contributions to the fields of science and engineering. However, despite his many successes, Tesla’s life was marked by tragedy. From financial struggles and personal setbacks to the deterioration of his mental health, Tesla’s story is one of both brilliance and

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Money vs Currency (Hidden Secrets Of Money)

Business, Money / Steve Burns

Money and currency are terms often used interchangeably but refer to different concepts. Money is a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. It facilitates transactions between parties and can take various forms, such as coins, paper bills, and even electronic transfers. On the other hand, currency is a specific

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Businesses that Never Fail? 6 Businesses with Low Failure Rates

Business, Real Estate / Steve Burns

Business is not as easy as most people believe, whether it’s a big business trying to survive in its market year by year or a small business just starting out, the success rate is not high. Big business must grow its top line sales and its bottom line profit just to stay in business as

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How to Create a Company: Elon Musk’s 5 Rules

Business, Elon Musk / Steve Burns

The richest man in the world is a serial entrepreneur. Elon Musk has spent his whole life building businesses from scratch, the early ones he sold and the latest ones he has kept. His record for creating companies is staggering in quantity, scale, and magnitude. What companies has Elon Musk created? His first business building

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Warren Buffett Intrinsic Value Formula

Business, Fundamentals, Warren Buffett / Steve Burns

“Intrinsic value is an all-important concept that offers the only logical approach to evaluating the relative attractiveness of investments and businesses. Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.” – Warren Buffett Owners Earnings “If we think

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Best Business Books

Books, Business / Steve Burns

Here are ten of the best business books for business owners and CEOs. These books do a great job explaining the principles to successfully manage, operate, build, innovate, and win in the business world. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson This book takes a look inside the mind and processes of one of the most successful

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Best Books for Financial Literacy

Business, Investing, Personal Finance / Steve Burns

Financial literacy is the ability to understand and apply a range of financial skills effectively. It applies to successful personal financial decisions and management like monthly budgets, saving, investing, and establishing a career to pay living expenses. Financial literacy means people can become self-sufficient and not need to live with parents or family as they

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Twitch Stock

Business / Steve Burns

Is Twitch a publicly traded company? If you are searching for the Twitch ticker symbol you are too late as Jeff Bezos bought the whole company for Amazon back in August 2014 for $970 million USD as part of Justin.tv. Twitch was first introduced in June 2011 as a spin-off of the original streaming platform

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How to Calculate Enterprise Value

Business, Finance, Investing / Steve Burns

Enterprise value or EV is a financial measurement calculating the total monetary value of a business in the marketplace. Enterprise value is not the current market price but what the true value of the business is based on its assets and cash flow. The EV is the difference between the outstanding debt and the assets

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Discounted Cash Flow Formula

Business, Investing / Steve Burns

In the world of finance, discounted cash flow or DCF for short is the method for analyzing and projecting the value of a stock, company, project, real estate, or intellectual property by the estimated time value of money it generates. Discounted cash flow measurement and analysis is used in stock market investing, real estate investing

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Top Ten Wealth Quotes Of John D. Rockefeller

Business, Financial Independence, Wealth / Steve Burns

John D. Rockefeller Sr. was a business tycoon and philanthropist who was possibly the wealthiest American of all time and also the richest person in modern times on an inflation adjusted basis. His net worth was about $400 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars, or about 2% of the United States GDP. He focused on the business on oil

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