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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Avoid the latest fads, trends or PR announcements. Double-down on great people, process & IP. Many “me, too&# companies will perish.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

I lived through this again September 2001. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. But I sometime see people get bogged down in PR releases, cancelation clauses, minimum guarantees, whatever. I lived through this again September 2001.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. of course, you’re allowed to have your opinions. What did we do?

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