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31st May 2005

An Introduction to How to Write a Business Proposal

“If you want to know how to write a business proposal, the person to ask is your customer. A business proposal should answer your customer’s questions and persaude them to select you. You should write your business proposal to meet your customer’s expectations. But first you have to know what they are. Some general advice for how to write business proposals are provided below…”

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31st May 2005

Historic Corporate Reports

“The Historic Corporate Reports Collection consists of selected original company documents from circa 1820 to the present. Included are annual reports, prospectuses, proxies, registration statements, and miscellaneous items such as brokerage-house reports, charts, and unpublished corporate histories. The collection documents approximately 20,000 companies.”

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31st May 2005

“Crunch Mode” and Sleep

“Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons is an article that I meant to link to ages ago, and is presented here for the sake of completeness. ‘Crunch mode’ — working extra hours each day for extended periods in order to meet a (usually arbitrary and unrealistic) deadline — is a term that’s familiar to programmers, especially any who’ve worked at a small firm or start-up over the past 10 years.”

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