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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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Even though the consumer business had huge growth potential, 3M had little experience with a low-cost, low-profit-margin model. To stay in the “dog fight” meant 3M had to invest enormous amounts of money in order to remain the low-cost producer, with no assurance that profit margins ever would improve.

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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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EUREKA MOMENT After a 2007 visit to the Elmina Slave Castle , a former slave-trading depot in Ghana, Johnson had what she calls a “eureka moment.” The issue with a money-transfer protocol is that it needs to be fast and low-cost. She also has a consulting company, SKJ Visioneering , in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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