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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. Greetings from Crete, Greece Reply Jerry Ji , on April 10, 2009 at 11:09 am Said: Simply _THE BEST_ war story I’ve read in months. The first reaction from my CEO was, “that’s why you’re running the department.”

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

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by Dr. John Sullivan May 10, 2010, 12:16 am ET. May 10, 2010 at 6:26 am. May 10, 2010 at 9:39 am. May 10, 2010 at 10:09 am. May 10, 2010 at 10:47 am. May 10, 2010 at 11:33 am. Browse Articles by Tag. advertising. assessments. coldcalling. corporatecareerswebsite. corporaterecruiting. economicdata.

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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

An EU memo in 2010 stated the following discoveries: In the EU (but also in Japan and South Korea) the preference for being an employee is mainly motivated by considerations of stability (regular income, stable employment relation) and by the generally agreeable employment conditions (working hours, social protection). Changing the mindset.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Greece) might attempt a half-crazy experiment like this. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Systems like M-Pesa (see note #3 below) took off because in developing nations prepaid wireless minutes were a parallel currency, fungible for real money. Read More ».

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