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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

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It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. These are highly-skilled people that make up critical parts of your software development teams. Ditto for Apple. Collaboration tools have improved.

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How to Start a Startup

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You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. We never even considered that approach.

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