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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. To the contrary – if you know how to sell your own work, can negotiate good rates, network well, keep consistent work and have a great reputation – it can be very rewarding. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Electronic Arts is no different than many high-tech companies in this regard. What is management is trying to achieve when it sends employees off on death marches? Management wants to achieve maximal output from employees — they want to produce a (good) product as cheaply as possible. What Management Wants. Its ironic.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. We should expect more of these in the future.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. Pragmatic.

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Uber Needs to Transition from “Pirate” to “Navy”

Reid Hoffman

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”