profitability

According to a post at paidContent UK, an unnamed British ISP will soon launch an "unlimited music service" provided by Playlouder, a veteran music service company.

The Death Trap
“…think about market share, business model, sustainability, and profitability which are the measures that people in most businesses tend to focus on.”

Most often entrepreneurs measure their work in terms of time. I have been as guilty as anyone.

In addition to recruiting to create and sustain a bootstrap culture, entrepreneurs can use reward systems to reinforce bootstrap actions by employees.

Every business wants to grow profitably. The chase to profitability and growth is always centric to methods, or how.
Businesses try different strategies and tactics. Many methods have been tried including slick marketing messages vying to get potential customers attention. Some “tricks of the trade” have been used to reach the masses through [...]

Many of today’s companies recognize the urgency of converting to a customer-centric, social web-based, operation. The excuses and faulty logic brought on by global prosperity have been replaced by an honest examination of internal operations and external market share. As the various departments search for collaborative ways to maintain profitability in uncertain economic times, we [...]

There's an interesting post via MCB regarding Governor Bredesen's comments that Tennessee government and its budget must operate more like a business.

55-40 Memphis takes issue with those that say that professional journalists should be afforded protections that citizens should not:

The curves we draw to represent the growth of a business are misleading -- in fact they are flat out wrong. They usually show smooth curves with revenues meeting expenses at break-even, then swooping us toward the heavens leaving ever growing profits in their wake.

The truth is that growth is a messy thing. It never follows a smooth path. The real curves that signify growth are jagged. Growth is lumpy, not smooth.