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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

Both Sides of the Table

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey. We hired people to run the UK and Germany.

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7 Approaches To Help You Generate More Referrals

Duct Tape Marketing

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. Resources I mention: The Ultimate Marketing Engine: Five Steps to Ridiculously Consistent Growth. Why is there such a gap?

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Are India’s IT managers holding back the country’s startup growth?

The Next Web

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. All the way from 1993 to 2000.

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[Interview] Ryan Bonnici of HubSpot On Inbound Marketing In Asia

YoungUpstarts

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. In order to do this, you need to set your website up like a “hub” for your industry that attracts visitors naturally through search engines , blogging , and social media.

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Five Tips For People-Centric Data Security This Holiday Season

YoungUpstarts

There’s no single answer but one important strategy for keeping data private and secure on major holidays and beyond is to focus on people, not just on technologies. While technology is essential for protecting data, internal challenges can play a large role in data breaches. Inside Job. Other Tactics.

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Millennials got Mail: 6 ways to successfully target the ‘always connected’ generation through email

The Next Web

Toss around the term “Millennial” in your favorite search engine and it brings up perceived characteristics attributed to the generation. There’s the how-to on working with them, why not to hire them, how they are narcissistic and selfish (yet still love/rely on their families), and most of all, their “always connected” obsession.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. At IMVU , our engineering team accumulated thousands upon thousands of tests, and we had a build cluster (using BuildBot ) that ran them. Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. Do you have testers?