YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

Oh, and Northwestern Mutual has been in business for over 157 years and is worth $25 billion in sales. The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

Oh, and Northwestern Mutual has been in business for over 157 years and is worth $25 billion in sales. The key is to hire and promote leaders who truly do live the values your company espouses. And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns.

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Employee Leadership Balance Sheet Chicago 160

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. they have a hiring advantage, both in terms of perception they’re going somewhere and in terms of dollars to allocate to people. They evolve the product faster.

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Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Valuation PR 303

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Later joined by Jonathan Seelig, an MIT Sloan MBA student, the Akamai team raised an $8 million Series A based on the lab prototype in order to commercialize the product. They didn’t raise their Series B until they proved some of the initial hypotheses around market adoption and were ready to scale the sales efforts, as described below.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The lowercase “i” comes from the iMac, where it originally stood for “internet” (now it just stands for “oh, an Apple product!”), ”), but the original 2001 iPod itself had nothing to do with the internet. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though! This is what I follow: a.)

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Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44