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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. Who flourishes? What a mistake!

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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!

Occam's Razor

These two recommendations will help you compute the opportunity size for your management team. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Social cues to the rescue. Yes, from 1995!

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

The study, by Professor Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, is titled “ Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures.” You need investors and early employees to trust you and those are people you already know,” he says.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more In the Andreessen Horowitz portfolio, no companies deploy applications on premise, every employee has a mobile device and all deploy modern social software.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

The study, by Professor Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, is titled “ Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures.” You need investors and early employees to trust you and those are people you already know,” he says.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

The study, by Professor Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, is titled “ Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures.” You need investors and early employees to trust you and those are people you already know,” he says.

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