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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop. Yet in an increasingly globalized, diverse, interconnected world, it would be a mistake to assume that the same players can dominate in all markets.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And then I did a brief stint at AutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And we launched Message From America with Sony, where you could come in and tape a DVD and send it to your soldier or sailor or marine that was being deployed. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Superficially it sort of worked, but the underlying code is so full of fundamental coding errors (God classes, SQL Injection opportunities, massive global dependencies etc.)