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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

But, you can be sure that as an entrepreneur, each day will be loaded with new possibilities to challenge yourself, be innovative, and learn something new. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. I wouldn't be happy doing this for the rest of my life. #7- I could push myself.

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Keith Rabois famously quipped , “I don’t know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.” Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. ” That was five months ago, and people are still talking about it. And agreeing.

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The mid-market briar patch

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

People with $50/mo blogs have many of the same problems as people with $2000/mo blogs but pay us 40x less, which might imply we should focus on the high-end blogger. If we just chose one or the other, we could optimize the rest of the business around it — hiring, automation, marketing, sales — and maybe we should.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. Everybody was raising a shit-ton of money.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly. Recruiting.

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

The Next Web

When Murthy had left in 2011 from his chairman position, Infosys stood head and shoulders above the rest as the bellwether Indian IT firm (it had since then been nudged out from that mantle by Tata Consultancy Services). All the way from 1993 to 2000. The outsourcing game is still alive in India and the rest of Asia.

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Top 10 Tips For Female Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

If you are considering taking up the reins and becoming your own boss here are our top tips for female entrepreneurs. There aren’t any hard and fast rules about what a business looks like, so make sure your company fits in with the rest of your life. The root of many business failures is not making the right hiring decisions.