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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups.

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How Diversity Can Increase Innovation And Growth In Your Business

YoungUpstarts

With an almost 50 percent split between male (57%) and female (43%) employees, a diversity of ages of employees, with 30 percent identifying as Asian, 30 percent Hispanic/Latino, 13 percent Caucasian, and 27 percent Other, every aspect of our company’s make-up is diverse.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Founding Akamai.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. Not Teaching the Right Skills. A lot of MBA students tell me that they’d like to found a startup, but aren’t sure if they’re ready.

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Philosopher Versus MBA

Reid Hoffman

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. Not Teaching the Right Skills. A lot of MBA students tell me that they’d like to found a startup, but aren’t sure if they’re ready.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I sent notes to my clients, thanking them for their business, notes to my employees for all of their support over the years, and notes to HelloWorld directors, for their trust in purchasing my company. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. and was founded in 1998. billion in 2008 and $8.8

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