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Three Easy Ways Businesses Can Combat Cyber Threats

YoungUpstarts

Since 2003, October has been recognized as National Cyber Security Awareness Month in an effort to promote safety and security online. Be wary of allowing employees to bring their own devices. And for good reason, it gives employees the flexibility they want and need, and lessens the initial investment for businesses.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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Playing Startup

View from Seed

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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10 Scientific Facts About Successful Teams

YoungUpstarts

Because so many project team members enjoy a fair amount of autonomy in their individual tasks, the researchers believe such employees are more open to hearing what their superiors and organizers have to say. Small groups might help kids retain math lessons. The best leaders don’t “coddle” their stars.

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Playing Startup

Agile VC

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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3 Winning Startups And Keys to Success

Up and Running

He told a great story of building a company around values – “all natural whole nut and fruit bars made from ingredients you can see and pronounce&# – and building the company the old-fashioned way, hard work, pounding the pavements, marching around New York going store by store to generate a channel of distribution.