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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

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That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Service-oriented architecture.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

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Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. The global economy is currently going through a " perfect storm" of change , so we can expect even more creative destruction than normal. Founding teams must be balanced.

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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. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Gross Profit. $(60).

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. We didn’t line up that press and have those sales materials and ensure code-quality high enough to scale on day one, without predictability. This means you can — and should!

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

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about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He continues: “I am thinking of initiatives to startup hi-tech companies with annual sales turnover of over $1 billion a year. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent.

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